A Best-Match Algorithm for Broad-Coverage Example-Based Disambiguation

To improve the coverage of example-bases, two methods are introduced into the best-match algorithm. The first is for acquiring conjunctive relationships from corpora, as measures of word similarity that can be used in addition to thesauruses. The Second, used when a word does not appear in an example-base or a thesaurus, is for inferring links to words in the example-base by comparing the usage of the word in the text and that of words in the example-base.