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In the paper, we test two different approaches to the {unsupervised} word sense disambiguation task for Polish. In both methods, we use neural language models to predict words similar to those being disambiguated and, on the basis of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Agnieszka Mykowiecka , Agnieszka A. Mykowiecka , Piotr Rychlik

The automatic disambiguation of word senses (i.e., the identification of which of the meanings is used in a given context for a word that has multiple meanings) is essential for such applications as machine translation and information…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-20 Diego R. Amancio , Osvaldo N. Oliveira , Luciano da F. Costa

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

This paper describes an experimental comparison between two standard supervised learning methods, namely Naive Bayes and Exemplar-based classification, on the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) problem. The aim of the work is twofold. Firstly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gerard Escudero , Lluis Marquez , German Rigau

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 clean, yet effective, model for word sense disambiguation. Our approach leverage a bidirectional long short-term memory network which is shared between all words. This enables the model to share statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Mikael Kågebäck , Hans Salomonsson

This paper explores techniques that focus on understanding and resolving ambiguity in language within the field of natural language processing (NLP), highlighting the complexity of linguistic phenomena such as polysemy and homonymy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Miuru Abeysiriwardana , Deshan Sumanathilaka

Determining the intended sense of words in text - word sense disambiguation (WSD) - is a long standing problem in natural language processing. Recently, researchers have shown promising results using word vectors extracted from a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Dayu Yuan , Julian Richardson , Ryan Doherty , Colin Evans , Eric Altendorf

Text search based on lexical matching of keywords is not satisfactory due to polysemous and synonymous words. Semantic search that exploits word meanings, in general, improves search performance. In this paper, we survey WordNet-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vuong M. Ngo , Tru H. Cao , Tuan M. V. Le

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

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 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

We explore the use of unsupervised methods in Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation (CL-WSD) with the application of English to Persian. Our proposed approach targets the languages with scarce resources (low-density) by exploiting word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Navid Rekabsaz , Mihai Lupu , Allan Hanbury , Andres Duque

Word Sense Induction (WSI) is the task of discovering senses of an ambiguous word by grouping usages of this word into clusters corresponding to these senses. Many approaches were proposed to solve WSI in English and a few other languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Denis Kokosinskii , Nikolay Arefyev

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 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

A critical challenge faced by supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the lack of large annotated datasets with sufficient coverage of words in their diversity of senses. This inspired recent research on few-shot WSD using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yingjun Du , Nithin Holla , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ekaterina Shutova

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

We describe a method for automatic word sense disambiguation using a text corpus and a machine-readable dictionary (MRD). The method is based on word similarity and context similarity measures. Words are considered similar if they appear in…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Yael Karov , Shimon Edelman

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), which aims to identify the correct sense of a given polyseme, is a long-standing problem in NLP. In this paper, we propose to use BERT to extract better polyseme representations for WSD and explore several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jiaju Du , Fanchao Qi , Maosong Sun