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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

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

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

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

Many downstream NLP tasks have shown significant improvement through continual pre-training, transfer learning and multi-task learning. State-of-the-art approaches in Word Sense Disambiguation today benefit from some of these approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Harsh Kohli

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

Mainstream Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) approaches have employed BERT to extract semantics from both context and definitions of senses to determine the most suitable sense of a target word, achieving notable performance. However, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linhan Xia , Mingzhan Yang , Guohui Yuan , Shengnan Tao , Yujing Qiu , Guo Yu , Kai Lei

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

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

Supervised models for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) currently yield to state-of-the-art results in the most popular benchmarks. Despite the recent introduction of Word Embeddings and Recurrent Neural Networks to design powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Stefano Melacci , Achille Globo , Leonardo Rigutini

Domain adaptation or transfer learning using pre-trained language models such as BERT has proven to be an effective approach for many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we propose to formulate word sense disambiguation as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Boon Peng Yap , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Recent approaches to word sense disambiguation (WSD) utilize encodings of the sense gloss (definition), in addition to the input context, to improve performance. In this work we demonstrate that this approach can be adapted for use in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Joshua Tanner , Jacob Hoffman

This paper demonstrates that word sense disambiguation (WSD) can improve neural machine translation (NMT) by widening the source context considered when modeling the senses of potentially ambiguous words. We first introduce three adaptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Xiao Pu , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson , Andrei Popescu-Belis

In this article, we tackle the issue of the limited quantity of manually sense annotated corpora for the task of word sense disambiguation, by exploiting the semantic relationships between senses such as synonymy, hypernymy and hyponymy, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Loïc Vial , Benjamin Lecouteux , Didier Schwab

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

Recent years of research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have witnessed dramatic growth in training large models for generating context-aware language representations. In this regard, numerous NLP systems have leveraged the power of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Avi Chawla , Nidhi Mulay , Vikas Bishnoi , Gaurav Dhama , Anil Kumar Singh

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods identify the most suitable meaning of a word with respect to the usage of that word in a specific context. Neural network-based WSD approaches rely on a sense-annotated corpus since they do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Sm Zobaed , Md Enamul Haque , Md Fazle Rabby , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Contextualized word embeddings (CWE) such as provided by ELMo (Peters et al., 2018), Flair NLP (Akbik et al., 2018), or BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) are a major recent innovation in NLP. CWEs provide semantic vector representations of words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gregor Wiedemann , Steffen Remus , Avi Chawla , Chris Biemann

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

Cross-lingual word sense disambiguation (WSD) tackles the challenge of disambiguating ambiguous words across languages given context. The pre-trained BERT embedding model has been proven to be effective in extracting contextual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xingran Zhu
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