Lesk algorithm

English

Etymology

Named after American computer scientist Mike Lesk (1945–).

Noun

Lesk algorithm (uncountable)

  1. (computational linguistics) A classical algorithm that disambiguates word senses by comparing dictionary definitions of an ambiguous word with its surrounding context.
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