WASPS
A Semi-Automatic Lexicographer's Workbench for Writing Word Sense ProfileS
WASPS is an EPSRC funded project. The project team is Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Dr. David Tugwell with direction and advice from Dr. Roger Evans, and Dr Sue Atkins. Its remit is to explore the synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation (WSD).
On the one hand, lexicographers are asking for natural language processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour, particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD algorithms are successfully brought together.
Project start date: June 1 1999 (to run for 3 years)
Overview of WASPS architecture
Try out the prototype WASPBENCH (Please send any comments or queries to David.Tugwell@itri.bton.ac.uk)