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  <Title>ONE SENSE PER COLLOCATION</Title>
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8. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper has examined some of the basic distributional properties of lexical ambiguity in the English language. Our experiments have shown that for several definitions of sense and collocation, an ambiguous word has only one sense in a given collocation with a probability of 90-99%. We showed how this claim is influenced by part-of-speech, distance, and sample frequency. We discussed the implications of these results for data set creation and algorithm design, identifying potential weaknesses in the common &amp;quot;bag of words&amp;quot; approach to disambiguation. Finally, we showed that models of local collocation can be combined in a disambiguation algorithm that achieves overall precision of 92%.</Paragraph>
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