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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

As a key natural language processing (NLP) task, word sense disambiguation (WSD) evaluates how well NLP models can understand the lexical semantics of words under specific contexts. Benefited from the large-scale annotation, current WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ying Su , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Tong Zhang

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

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), the process of automatically identifying the meaning of a polysemous word in a sentence, is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Progress in this approach to WSD opens up many promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Mohammad Nasiruddin

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the task of associating a word in a given context with its most suitable meaning among a set of possible candidates. While the task has recently witnessed renewed interest, with systems achieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Andrei Stefan Bejgu , Edoardo Barba , Luigi Procopio , Alberte Fernández-Castro , Roberto Navigli

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

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

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

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) of words is an important task for various NLP applications that must make time-sensitive predictions. Some words are used over time in novel ways to express new meanings, and these new meanings establish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xiaohang Tang , Yi Zhou , Taichi Aida , Procheta Sen , Danushka Bollegala

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a long-standing problem in natural language processing. One significant challenge in supervised all-words WSD is to classify among senses for a majority of words that lie in the long-tail distribution. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Howard Chen , Mengzhou Xia , Danqi Chen

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

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a well researched problem in computational linguistics. Different research works have approached this problem in different ways. Some state of the art results that have been achieved for this problem are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Mahtab Ahmed , Muhammad Rifayat Samee , Robert E. Mercer

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

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

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

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

Word sense analysis is an essential analysis work for interpreting the linguistic and social backgrounds. The word sense change detection is a task of identifying and interpreting shifts in word meanings over time. This paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kensuke Mitsuzawa

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

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

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
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