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% |