Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemous words in dictionary representations of a lexical knowledge base in computer memory

Claim 1

A computer memory containing a dictionary representation representing a fully sense disambiguated lexical knowledge base containing a multiplicity of nodes each representing an occurrence of a word in a dictionary from which the lexical knowledge base was derived, the dictionary representation containing for each node a sense characterization, and being used for natural language processing, the dictionary representation comprising: a sense characterization for each of a first plurality of the multiplicity of nodes, representing a first plurality of words, the sense characterization being based upon dictionary-provided sense characterizations; a sense characterization for each of a second plurality of the multiplicity of nodes representing a second plurality of words, which occur in dictionary text segments, the sense characterization being copied from a third plurality of the multiplicity of nodes representing occurrences of the second plurality of words found in the dictionary text segments which include a common word also found in the dictionary text segments associated with the second plurality of nodes; and a sense characterization for each of a fourth plurality of the multiplicity of nodes, not among the first, second or third plurality of nodes, assigned in accordance with default senses identified for each word, the sense characterizations providing a computer readable indication of word sense.