A Comprehensive Analysis of Word Sense Disambiguation in a Regional Language

Word Sense Disambiguation(WSD) is a Natural Language Processing(NLP) technique that tries to disambiguate ambiguous words by finding the right sense of a word in a particular context. It is a classification task that assists in mapping a word to one or more potential senses based on its sentence. Understanding the intended sense in a particular context is crucial for proper communication and accurate language processing. But WSD is especially crucial in Bengali for a number of reasons: Similar to other Indic languages, Bengali possesses a rich and complex system of word formation. A root word can be modified according to aspects like tense, gender, number, and case. An attempt is made in this working paper where authors will be working on WSD but on the Bengali language, where words have different meanings. The Bengali language has plenty of words with multiple meanings. Even though WSD has been propagated the world over, the language Bengali has a lot of challenges since there are very few resources available and research due to its complex syllable structure.