Sentence:  This approach requires that : ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller <WSD>elements</WSD> to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries , and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system