A word-sense disambiguator for Finnish using the FinnWordNet synsets.

The app reads in plain Finnish text, tokenizes it, and assigns the word tokens a synset (concept) from the FinnWordNet. For more information on the analysis pipeline, see the Wiki.

The app is available as a Docker image so it can be run without installing the dependencies, see below.

The ready-made Docker image is published in the Docker Hub where Docker can find it automatically.

To disambiguate Finnish text, run:

$ echo Tämä on hyvä esimerkkilause. | docker run -i teemuruokolainen/sense-disambiguator:latest

The output consists of word token, word lemma, part-of-speech, assigned synset, the Brown corpus frequency of the synset (see Wiki), and the synset definition separated with a tab (\t):

$ echo Tämä on hyvä esimerkki. | docker run -i teemuruokolainen/sense-disambiguator:latest
token lemma pos synset Brown_frequency definition
Tämä tämä PRONOUN - - -
on olla VERB Synset('be.v.01') 10742 have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
hyvä hyvä ADJECTIVE Synset('good.a.01') 190 having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing >specified
esimerkki esimerkki NOUN Synset('example.n.01') 50 an item of information that is typical of a class or group
. . PUNCTUATION - - -\

To disambiguate a collection of texts (e.g. sentences or documents), run:

$ cat text-file.txt | docker run -i teemuruokolainen/sense-disambiguator:latest

where text-file.txt should contain one text per row. Each text is separated by an empty row in the output.