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  <Title>The Italian Lexical Sample Task at SENSEVAL-3</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The task consisted in automatically determining the correct meaning of a word within a given context (i.e. a short text snippet). Systems' results were compared on the one hand to those achieved by human annotators (upper bound), and on the other hand to those returned by a basic algorithm (baseline).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the second section of this paper an overview of the task preparation is given and in the following one the main features of the participating systems are briefly outlined and the results of the evaluation exercise are presented.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the conclusions we give an overall judgement of the outcome of the task, suggesting possible improvements for the next campaign.</Paragraph>
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