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. 2007 Feb 12;7:3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-3

Table 3.

Mean contribution of algorithms to word sense disambiguation (smoothing) and ranking

SMOOTHING ALGORITHM TRAINING SET n = 12,056 TEST SET n = 8,131
Concept 12% 13%
Homonym 1% 1%
N-Gram 55% 53%
Metaphone 5% 4%
Length 14% 14%
Part-of-speech 10% 11%
History 3% 4%

TOTAL 100% 100%