Chapter 6. Semantic Analysis – Meaning Matters
Semantic analysis, or meaning generation is one of the tasks in NLP. It is defined as the process of determining the meaning of character sequences or word sequences. It may be used for performing the task of disambiguation.
This chapter will include the following topics:
- NER
- NER system using the HMM
- Training NER using machine learning toolkits
- NER using POS tagging
- Generation of the synset id from Wordnet
- Disambiguating senses using Wordnet
Introducing semantic analysis
NLP means performing computations on natural language. One of the steps performed while processing a natural language is semantic analysis. While analyzing an input sentence, if the syntactic structure of a sentence is built, then the semantic ...
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