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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

We introduce a neural network-based system of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for German that is based on SenseFitting, a novel method for optimizing WSD. We outperform knowledge-based WSD methods by up to 25% F1-score and produce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Manuel Stoeckel , Sajawel Ahmed , Alexander Mehler

Acquisition of multilingual training data continues to be a challenge in word sense disambiguation (WSD). To address this problem, unsupervised approaches have been proposed to automatically generate sense annotations for training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak , Yixing Luan , Arnob Mallik , Lili Mou

Human language, while aimed at conveying meaning, inherently carries ambiguity. It poses challenges for speech and language processing, but also serves crucial communicative functions. Efficiently solve ambiguity is both a desired and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Pablo Ortega , Jordi Luque , Luis Lamiable , Rodrigo López , Richard Benjamins

In this paper, we applied a novel learning algorithm, namely, Deep Belief Networks (DBN) to word sense disambiguation (WSD). DBN is a probabilistic generative model composed of multiple layers of hidden units. DBN uses Restricted Boltzmann…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Hiroya Takamura , Manabu Okumura

Prepositions are very common and very ambiguous, and understanding their sense is critical for understanding the meaning of the sentence. Supervised corpora for the preposition-sense disambiguation task are small, suggesting a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Hila Gonen , Yoav Goldberg

In this paper we concentrate on the resolution of the lexical ambiguity that arises when a given word has several different meanings. This specific task is commonly referred to as word sense disambiguation (WSD). The task of WSD consists of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-09-13 A. Montoyo , M. Palomar , G. Rigau , A. Suarez

A large class of unsupervised algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is that of dictionary-based methods. Various algorithms have as the root Lesk's algorithm, which exploits the sense definitions in the dictionary directly. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Doina Tatar , Gabriela Serban , Andreea Mihis , Mihaiela Lupea , Dana Lupsa , Militon Frentiu

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

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

Despite the success achieved on various natural language processing tasks, word embeddings are difficult to interpret due to the dense vector representations. This paper focuses on interpreting the embeddings for various aspects, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ting-Yun Chang , Ta-Chung Chi , Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

Current models for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) struggle to disambiguate rare senses, despite reaching human performance on global WSD metrics. This stems from a lack of data for both modeling and evaluating rare senses in existing WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Terra Blevins , Mandar Joshi , Luke Zettlemoyer

Many less-resourced languages struggle with a lack of large, task-specific datasets that are required for solving relevant tasks with modern transformer-based large language models (LLMs). On the other hand, many linguistic resources, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Tadej Škvorc , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Text simplification (TS) aims to reduce the lexical and structural complexity of a text, while still retaining the semantic meaning. Current automatic TS techniques are limited to either lexical-level applications or manually defining a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Tong Wang , Ping Chen , Kevin Amaral , Jipeng Qiang

This paper develops a model that addresses sentence embedding, a hot topic in current natural language processing research, using recurrent neural networks with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cells. Due to its ability to capture long term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Palangi , Li Deng , Yelong Shen , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Xinying Song , Rabab Ward

Sentence-level classification and sequential labeling are two fundamental tasks in language understanding. While these two tasks are usually modeled separately, in reality, they are often correlated, for example in intent classification and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Mingbo Ma , Kai Zhao , Liang Huang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Ambiguous words are often found in modern digital communications. Lexical ambiguity challenges traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) methods, due to limited data. Consequently, the efficiency of translation, information retrieval, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 T. G. D. K. Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough

We present a neural network architecture based on bidirectional LSTMs to compute representations of words in the sentential contexts. These context-sensitive word representations are suitable for, e.g., distinguishing different word senses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Kazuya Kawakami , Chris Dyer

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is one of the main challenges in Computational Linguistics. TreeMatch is a WSD system originally developed using data from SemEval 2007 Task 7 (Coarse-grained English All-words Task) that has been adapted for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andrew Tran , Chris Bowes , David Brown , Ping Chen , Max Choly , Wei Ding

Semantic Similarity between two sentences can be defined as a way to determine how related or unrelated two sentences are. The task of Semantic Similarity in terms of distributed representations can be thought to be generating sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Richa Sharma , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava