%0 Journal Article %T Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Survey %A J. Sreedhar %A S. Viswanadha Raju %A A. Vinaya Babu %A Amjan Shaik %J International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %D 2012 %I International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %X Word Sense Disambiguation(WSD) is a vital area which is very useful in today¡¯s world. Many WSD algorithms are available in literature, we have chosen to opt for an optimal and portable WSD algorithms. We are discussed the supervised, unsupervised, and knowledge-based approaches for WSD. This paper will also furnish an idea of few of the WSD algorithms and their performances, Which compares and asses the need of the word sense disambiguity. %K Supervised %K Unsupervised %K Knowledge-based %K WSD. %U http://www.ijsce.org/attachments/File/v2i2/B0591042212.pdf