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I am looking for java-based WSD using WordNet that return the appropriate sense of a word based on a context. Can you provide me with some?

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    Word sense disambiguation is _hard_. Generic word sense disambiguation (i.e. not limited to a specific domain) is _particularly hard_. In many cases humans can't agree on which is _the_ appropriate sense in a given context, or even if there is one... Searching for "java word sense disambiguation" will give you a number of possibilities to start from, but whatever you use you'll probably need to customize in some form or re-train on your own data to get anything useful out of it. – Ian Roberts Oct 19 '12 at 17:11
  • Not that I know, but I think you can create one. Could be a good project. – Federico Lenzi Oct 19 '12 at 19:47
  • Thanks guys, I was hoping to find ready java-based tool that handle this. Perl got plenty WSD tools. But my project is in Java :( In the mean time I don't have plenty of time to create it, but maybe in future I will. – Ahmad Alqarni Oct 20 '12 at 07:44

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I think BabelNet might be useful to you. It does word sense disambiguation based on data from WordNet and Wikipedia.

This paper (pdf) explains how it works and shows an example of WSD using their API.

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