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  <Title>Valido: a Visual Tool for Validating Sense Annotations</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we presented Valido, a tool for the validation of manual and automatic sense annotations. Valido allows a validator to analyse the coherency of different sense annotations provided for the same word in terms of the respective semantic interconnections with the other senses in context. We reported an experiment showing that  the approach provides useful hints. Notice that this experiment concerns the quality of the suggestions, which are not necessarily taken into account by the validator (implying a higher degree of accuracy in the overall validation process).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We foresee an extension of the tool for supporting the sense annotation phase. The tool can indeed provide richer information than interfaces like the Open Mind Word Expert (Chklovski and Mihalcea, 2002), and the annotator can take advantage of the resulting graphs to improve awareness in the decisions to be taken, so as to make consistent choices with respect to the reference lexicon.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Finally, we would like to propose the use of the tool in the preparation of at least one of the test sets for the next Senseval exercise, to be held supposedly next year.</Paragraph>
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