SYMCON—A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist System for Word Sense Disambiguation

摘要

Connectionist methods and knowledge-based techniques are two largely complementary approaches to natural language processing (NLP). However, they both have some potential problems which preclude their being a general purpose processing method. Research reveals that a hybrid processing approach that combines connectionist with symbolic techniques may be able to use the strengths of one processing paradigm to address the weakness of the other one. Hence, a system that effectively combines the two different approaches can be superior to either one in isolation.