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Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a task to find the image that most accurately depicts the correct sense of the target word for the given context. Previously, image-text matching models often suffered from recognizing polysemous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Sunjae Kwon , Rishabh Garodia , Minhwa Lee , Zhichao Yang , Hong Yu

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a problem in the field of computational linguistics given as finding the intended sense of a word (or a set of words) when it is activated within a certain context. WSD was recently addressed as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Sallam Abualhaija , Karl-Heinz Zimmermann

Word sense disambiguation primarily addresses the lexical ambiguity of common words based on a predefined sense inventory. Conversely, proper names are usually considered to denote an ad-hoc real-world referent. Once the reference is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Shu-Kai Hsieh , Yu-Hsiang Tseng , Hsin-Yu Chou , Ching-Wen Yang , Yu-Yun Chang

Word Sense Disambiguation is an open problem in Natural Language Processing which is particularly challenging and useful in the unsupervised setting where all the words in any given text need to be disambiguated without using any labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

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

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

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

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

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

Word embeddings are now ubiquitous forms of word representation in natural language processing. There have been applications of word embeddings for monolingual word sense disambiguation (WSD) in English, but few comparisons have been done.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Hong Jin Kang , Tao Chen , Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Min-Yen Kan

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

In the absence of sense-annotated data, word sense induction (WSI) is a compelling alternative to word sense disambiguation, particularly in low-resource or domain-specific settings. In this paper, we emphasize methodological problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Anna Mosolova , Marie Candito , Carlos Ramisch

The task of automatically detecting hate speech in social media is gaining more and more attention. Given the enormous volume of content posted daily, human monitoring of hate speech is unfeasible. In this work, we propose new word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Nicolas Zampieri , Irina Illina , Dominique Fohr

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

Correctly identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) is an important task for most natural language processing systems since their misidentification can result in ambiguity and misunderstanding of the underlying text. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Andrei-Marius Avram , Verginica Barbu Mititelu , Vasile Păiş , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu

Ambiguity poses persistent challenges in natural language understanding for large language models (LLMs). To better understand how lexical ambiguity can be resolved through the visual domain, we develop an interpretable Visual Word Sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shamik Bhattacharya , Daniel Perkins , Yaren Dogan , Vineeth Konjeti , Sudarshan Srinivasan , Edmon Begoli

Interpretability of a predictive model is a powerful feature that gains the trust of users in the correctness of the predictions. In word sense disambiguation (WSD), knowledge-based systems tend to be much more interpretable than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Panchenko , Fide Marten , Eugen Ruppert , Stefano Faralli , Dmitry Ustalov , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Chris Biemann

Recently, Yuan et al. (2016) have shown the effectiveness of using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for performing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Their proposed technique outperformed the previous state-of-the-art with several benchmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Minh Le , Marten Postma , Jacopo Urbani

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 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