Hello, I am doing Natural Language Processing which is a research to make computer understand human language. I need help from English expert here to choose the right sense of a word which is called Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). For the question
What are the countries that have a population of more than 25 million
As the closed class word is not necessary for the WSD process. So I filter out to only the words
countries
population
Here is the senses for the both words respectively
5 senses of country
Sense 1
{08168978} state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")
=> {08359949} political unit, political entity -- (a unit with political responsibilities)
Sense 2
{08544813} country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")
=> {08491826} administrative district, administrative division, territorial division -- (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Sense 3
{08166552} nation, land, country -- (the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him")
=> {07942152} people -- ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience")
Sense 4
{08644722} country, rural area -- (an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country")
=> {08574314} geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region -- (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Sense 5
{08497294} area, country -- (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country")
=> {08630985} region -- (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions")
5 senses of population
Sense 1
{08179879} population -- (the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed")
=> {07942152} people -- ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience")
Sense 2
{08178741} population -- (a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population")
=> {00031264} group, grouping -- (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Sense 3
{06026276} population, universe -- ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population")
=> {07951464} collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage -- (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Sense 4
{13779804} population -- (the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing")
=> {13728499} integer, whole number -- (any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction")
Sense 5
{01257969} population -- (the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals")
=> {01252280} colonization, colonisation, settlement -- (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America")
The 8 digit number shows the Sense ID, the arrow => means hypernym of (broader term, "is a").
Do you have general opinion about the sense meaning that I gave ? The senses of meaning seem very close to me. So I am finding it hard to choose the right sense for that 2 words. Could you point that out for me ? Thanks.