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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

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

Understanding the meaning of words is crucial for many tasks that involve human-machine interaction. This has been tackled by research in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Recently, WSD and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 María G. Buey , Carlos Bobed , Jorge Gracia , Eduardo Mena

Word sense disambiguation improves many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, or Lexical Simplification. Roughly speaking, the aim is to choose for each…

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

The paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation based on parallel corpora. The method exploits recent advances in word alignment and word clustering based on automatic extraction of translation equivalents and being supported by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dan Tufis , Radu Ion , Nancy Ide

Neural word representations have proven useful in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks due to their ability to efficiently model complex semantic and syntactic word relationships. However, most techniques model only one representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Andrew Trask , Phil Michalak , John Liu

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

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

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

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

Resolution of lexical ambiguity, commonly termed ``word sense disambiguation'', is expected to improve the analytical accuracy for tasks which are sensitive to lexical semantics. Such tasks include machine translation, information…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujii

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the task to determine the sense of an ambiguous word in a given context. Previous approaches for WSD have focused on supervised and knowledge-based methods, but inter-sense interactions patterns or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Boliang Lin

The Word-in-Context (WiC) task has attracted considerable attention in the NLP community, as demonstrated by the popularity of the recent MCL-WiC SemEval shared task. Systems and lexical resources from word sense disambiguation (WSD) are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak

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

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

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

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

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

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