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In this paper we describe a WSD experiment based on bilingual English-Spanish comparable corpora in which individual noun phrases have been identified and aligned with their respective counterparts in the other language. The evaluation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-10-30 David Fernandez-Amoros

This paper offers a mini review of Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD), which is a multimodal extension of traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). VWSD helps tackle lexical ambiguity in vision-language tasks. While conventional WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shashini Nilukshi , Deshan Sumanathilaka

Word ambiguity removal is a task of removing ambiguity from a word, i.e. correct sense of word is identified from ambiguous sentences. This paper describes a model that uses Part of Speech tagger and three categories for word sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Priti Saktel , Urmila Shrawankar

Verb Sense Disambiguation is a well-known task in NLP, the aim is to find the correct sense of a verb in a sentence. Recently, this problem has been extended in a multimodal scenario, by exploiting both textual and visual features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sebastiano Vascon , Sinem Aslan , Gianluca Bigaglia , Lorenzo Giudice , Marcello Pelillo

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to automatically identify the exact meaning of one word according to its context. Existing supervised models struggle to make correct predictions on rare word senses due to limited training data and can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Wenlin Yao , Xiaoman Pan , Lifeng Jin , Jianshu Chen , Dian Yu , Dong Yu

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to identify the correct meaning of polysemous words in the particular context. Lexical resources like WordNet which are proved to be of great help for WSD in the knowledge-based methods. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Fuli Luo , Tianyu Liu , Qiaolin Xia , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

In this paper, we are going to find meaning of words based on distinct situations. Word Sense Disambiguation is used to find meaning of words based on live contexts using supervised and unsupervised approaches. Unsupervised approaches use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Alok Ranjan Pal , Anirban Kundu , Abhay Singh , Raj Shekhar , Kunal Sinha

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

This article describes the results of a systematic in-depth study of the criteria used for word sense disambiguation. Our study is based on 60 target words: 20 nouns, 20 adjectives and 20 verbs. Our results are not always in line with some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Laurent Audibert

Word embedding is a fundamental natural language processing task which can learn feature of words. However, most word embedding methods assign only one vector to a word, even if polysemous words have multi-senses. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Yangxi Zhou , Junping Du , Zhe Xue , Ang Li , Zeli Guan

In recent years, concepts and methods of complex networks have been employed to tackle the word sense disambiguation (WSD) task by representing words as nodes, which are connected if they are semantically similar. Despite the increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Edilson A. Correa , Alneu de Andrade Lopes , Diego R. Amancio

This paper presents a new model of WordNet that is used to disambiguate the correct sense of polysemy word based on the clue words. The related words for each sense of a polysemy word as well as single sense word are referred to as the clue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Udaya Raj Dhungana , Subarna Shakya , Kabita Baral , Bharat Sharma

This paper presents a new model for word sense disambiguation formulated in terms of evolutionary game theory, where each word to be disambiguated is represented as a node on a graph whose edges represent word relations and senses are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Rocco Tripodi , Marcello Pelillo

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

State-of-the-art methods for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) combine two different features: the power of pre-trained language models and a propagation method to extend the coverage of such models. This propagation is needed as current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Daniel Loureiro , Jose Camacho-Collados

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

Biomedical word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an important intermediate task in many natural language processing applications such as named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, and relation extraction. In this paper, we employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 A. K. M. Sabbir , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Ramakanth Kavuluru

The problem of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is considered in the article. Given a set of synonyms (synsets) and sentences with these synonyms. It is necessary to select the meaning of the word in the sentence automatically. 1285…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Alexander Kirillov , Natalia Krizhanovsky , Andrew Krizhanovsky

The goal of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is to identify the sense of a polysemous word in a specific context. Deep-learning techniques using BERT have achieved very promising results in the field and different methods have been proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guan-Ting Lin , Manuel Giambi

This paper compares the tasks of part-of-speech (POS) tagging and word-sense-tagging or disambiguation (WSD), and argues that the tasks are not related by fineness of grain or anything like that, but are quite different kinds of task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yorick Wilks