Among the various knowledge-based (Lesk, 1986;Galley and McKeown, 2003;Navigli and Velardi, 2005) and data-driven (Yarowsky, 1995;Ng and Lee, 1996;Pedersen, 2001) word sense disambiguation methods that have been proposed to date, supervised systems have been constantly observed as leading to the highest performance.
through word sense disambiguation experiments, we show that the Wikipedia-based sense annotations are reliable and can be used to construct accurate sense classifiers.