DKPro WSD 1.1.0 released

[Tristan Miller]

We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro WSD, version 1.1.0.

DKPro WSD is a modular, extensible Java framework for word sense
disambiguation. It provides UIMA components which encapsulate corpus
readers, linguistic annotators, lexical semantic resources,
disambiguation algorithms, and evaluation and reporting tools.

To obtain the software, please visit its websites on Google Code:

https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-wsd/
https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-wsd-gpl/


Changelog
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In addition to various bug fixes, DKPro WSD 1.1.0 has the following new
features and improvements over the previous release (1.0.0):

* Evaluators now permit chaining of backoff algorithms (Issue 29)

* Added annotators that allow for disambiguating the complete text
collectively (Issue 56)

* Added a weighted MFS baseline

* Sense cluster evaluator now computes McNemar's test

* Sense cluster evaluator now handles the case where there are multiple
gold-standard senses, and includes undisambiguated instances in the
confusion matrix

* Improved logging output


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Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA)
Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Tel: +49 6151 16 6166 | Web: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/