Homograph Disambiguation Using Formal Concept Analysis

Homographs are words with identical spellings but different origins and meanings. Natural language processing must deal with the disambiguation of homographs and the attribution of senses to them. Advances have been made using context to discriminate homographs, but the problem is still open. Disambiguating homographs is possible using formal concept analysis. This paper discusses the issues, illustrated by examples, using data from Roget's Thesaurus.