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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 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

In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised algorithm for word sense disambiguation (WSD) at the document level. Our algorithm is inspired by a widely-used approach in the field of genetics for whole genome sequencing, known as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Andrei M. Butnaru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Florentina Hristea

In recent literature, contextual pretrained Language Models (LMs) demonstrated their potential in generalizing the knowledge to several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks including supervised Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Max Raphael Sobroza , Tales Marra , Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor , Claude Berrou

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an NLP task aimed at determining the correct sense of a word in a sentence from discrete sense choices. Although current systems have attained unprecedented performances for such tasks, the nonuniform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Hee Suk Yoon , Eunseop Yoon , John Harvill , Sunjae Yoon , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

Disambiguation of word senses in context is easy for humans, but is a major challenge for automatic approaches. Sophisticated supervised and knowledge-based models were developed to solve this task. However, (i) the inherent Zipfian…

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

A promising approach for knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is to select the sense whose contextualized embeddings computed for its definition sentence are closest to those computed for a target word in a given sentence. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Sakae Mizuki , Naoaki Okazaki

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

Transformer-based language models have taken many fields in NLP by storm. BERT and its derivatives dominate most of the existing evaluation benchmarks, including those for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), thanks to their ability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Daniel Loureiro , Kiamehr Rezaee , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Jose Camacho-Collados

In Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), the predominant approach generally involves a supervised system trained on sense annotated corpora. The limited quantity of such corpora however restricts the coverage and the performance of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Loïc Vial , Benjamin Lecouteux , Didier Schwab

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the task of determining the sense of a word in context. Translations have been used in WSD as a source of knowledge, and even as a means of delimiting word senses. In this paper, we define three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak

This paper describes the National Research Council (NRC) Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) system, as applied to the English Lexical Sample (ELS) task in Senseval-3. The NRC system approaches WSD as a classical supervised machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter D. Turney

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is a crucial component of many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. However, existing approaches typically reduce semantic nuances to a single score, limiting interpretability. To address this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Diego Miguel Lozano , Daryna Dementieva , Alexander Fraser

One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context. Resolving the WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Bilge Sipal , Ozcan Sari , Asena Teke , Nurullah Demirci

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

A major obstacle in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is that word senses are not uniformly distributed, causing existing models to generally perform poorly on senses that are either rare or unseen during training. We propose a bi-encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Terra Blevins , Luke Zettlemoyer

We propose KDSL, a new word sense disambiguation (WSD) framework that utilizes knowledge to automatically generate sense-labeled data for supervised learning. First, from WordNet, we automatically construct a semantic knowledge base called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Shi Yin , Yi Zhou , Chenguang Li , Shangfei Wang , Jianmin Ji , Xiaoping Chen , Ruili Wang

The success of deep learning methods hinges on the availability of large training datasets annotated for the task of interest. In contrast to human intelligence, these methods lack versatility and struggle to learn and adapt quickly to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nithin Holla , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Interpretability of a predictive model is a powerful feature that gains the trust of users in the correctness of the predictions. In word sense disambiguation (WSD), knowledge-based systems tend to be much more interpretable than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Panchenko , Fide Marten , Eugen Ruppert , Stefano Faralli , Dmitry Ustalov , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Chris Biemann