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Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a novel challenging task with the goal of retrieving an image among a set of candidates, which better represents the meaning of an ambiguous word within a given context. In this paper, we make a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anastasia Kritharoula , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a historical task in computational linguistics that has received much attention over the years. However, with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), interest in this task (in its classical definition)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Pierpaolo Basile , Lucia Siciliani , Elio Musacchio , Giovanni Semeraro

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in natural language. Resolving ambiguous meanings is especially important in information retrieval tasks. While word embeddings carry semantic information, they fail to handle ambiguity well. Transformer models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Matthias Thurnbauer , Johannes Reisinger , Christoph Goller , Andreas Fischer

This paper demonstrates that word sense disambiguation (WSD) can improve neural machine translation (NMT) by widening the source context considered when modeling the senses of potentially ambiguous words. We first introduce three adaptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Xiao Pu , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson , Andrei Popescu-Belis

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), the process of automatically identifying the meaning of a polysemous word in a sentence, is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Progress in this approach to WSD opens up many promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Mohammad Nasiruddin

This paper presents a method to combine a set of unsupervised algorithms that can accurately disambiguate word senses in a large, completely untagged corpus. Although most of the techniques for word sense resolution have been presented as…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 German Rigau , Jordi Atserias , Eneko Agirre

Word sense disambiguation helps identifying the proper sense of ambiguous words in text. With large terminologies such as the UMLS Metathesaurus ambiguities appear and highly effective disambiguation methods are required. Supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Antonio Jimeno Yepes

In this paper, we present a new approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) using an exemplar-based learning algorithm. This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense, including part of speech of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Hwee Tou Ng , Hian Beng Lee

Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which performs unrestricted word sense disambiguation (on all content words in free text) by combining…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yorick Wilks , Mark Stevenson

As a key natural language processing (NLP) task, word sense disambiguation (WSD) evaluates how well NLP models can understand the lexical semantics of words under specific contexts. Benefited from the large-scale annotation, current WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ying Su , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Tong Zhang

Word Sense Disambiguation is an open problem in Natural Language Processing which is particularly challenging and useful in the unsupervised setting where all the words in any given text need to be disambiguated without using any labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) improves many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Information Retrieval, Machine Translation or Lexical Simplification. WSD is the ability of determining a word sense among different ones…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mokhtar Billami , Núria Gala

We propose to take on the problem ofWord Sense Disambiguation (WSD). In language, words of the same form can take different meanings depending on context. While humans easily infer the meaning or gloss of such words by their context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Nikhil Patel , James Hale , Kanika Jindal , Apoorva Sharma , Yichun Yu

Language Models are the core for almost any Natural Language Processing system nowadays. One of their particularities is their contextualized representations, a game changer feature when a disambiguation between word senses is necessary. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Oscar Sainz , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Eneko Agirre , German Rigau

Contextualized word representations are able to give different representations for the same word in different contexts, and they have been shown to be effective in downstream natural language processing tasks, such as question answering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Christian Hadiwinoto , Hwee Tou Ng , Wee Chung Gan

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to find the exact sense of an ambiguous word in a particular context. Traditional supervised methods rarely take into consideration the lexical resources like WordNet, which are widely utilized in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Luyao Huang , Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

This paper describes a hybrid system for WSD, presented to the English all-words and lexical-sample tasks, that relies on two different unsupervised approaches. The first one selects the senses according to mutual information proximity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-10-29 David Fernandez-Amoros

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a problem in the field of computational linguistics given as finding the intended sense of a word (or a set of words) when it is activated within a certain context. WSD was recently addressed as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Sallam Abualhaija , Karl-Heinz Zimmermann

External linguistic resources have been used for a very long time in information extraction. These methods enrich a document with data that are semantically equivalent, in order to improve recall. For instance, some of these methods use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Jacquemin , Caroline Brun , Claude Roux

This paper describes an experimental comparison of three unsupervised learning algorithms that distinguish the sense of an ambiguous word in untagged text. The methods described in this paper, McQuitty's similarity analysis, Ward's…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ted Pedersen , Rebecca Bruce