  This paper presents a method for the resolution of lexical ambiguity of nouns
and its automatic evaluation over the Brown Corpus. The method relies on the
use of the wide-coverage noun taxonomy of WordNet and the notion of conceptual
distance among concepts, captured by a Conceptual Density formula developed for
this purpose. This fully automatic method requires no hand coding of lexical
entries, hand tagging of text nor any kind of training process. The results of
the experiments have been automatically evaluated against SemCor, the
sense-tagged version of the Brown Corpus.
