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=== Different algorithms for different applications ===

Completely different algorithms might be required by different
applications. In machine translation, the problem takes the form of
target word selection. Here the "senses" are words in the target
language, which often correspond to significant meaning distinctions
in the source language (''bank'' could translate to French ''banque''
'financial bank' or ''rive'' 'edge of river'). In information
retrieval, a sense inventory is not necessarily required, because it
is enough to know that a word is used in the same sense in the query
and a retrieved document; what sense that is, is unimportant.