12th February 2002

Due Tuesday, 19th February 2002

* Check the readings for this week.

* Mail your code to me.

* Your code must contain clear and comprehensive documentation.

* Written assignment to be submitted in class.

* Solve the following problems:

1. Exercise 7.1 in the text.
2. Exercise 8.5 in the text.
3. Exercise 8.12 in the text.
4. In the 218 Sentences corpora given in the resources section like has two different senses. Devise a scheme to disambiguate the two senses.
   • Clearly state the scheme you use.
   • What is the success rate of the method you have devised?
   • Can the success rate be improved? Explain the failures.
5. In the Small Size Text Corpora given in the resources section compute the cosine distance of the set Cricket News Articles from the other sets.