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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

Word sense disambiguation (WSD), which aims to determine an appropriate sense for a target word given its context, is crucial for natural language understanding. Existing supervised methods treat WSD as a classification task and have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhu Liu , Ying Liu

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

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

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

Lexicon acquisition from machine-readable dictionaries and corpora is currently a dynamic field of research, yet it is often not clear how lexical information so acquired can be used, or how it relates to structured meaning representations.…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adam Kilgarriff

The success of deep learning methods hinges on the availability of large training datasets annotated for the task of interest. In contrast to human intelligence, these methods lack versatility and struggle to learn and adapt quickly to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nithin Holla , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

In this paper, we are going to find meaning of words based on distinct situations. Word Sense Disambiguation is used to find meaning of words based on live contexts using supervised and unsupervised approaches. Unsupervised approaches use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Alok Ranjan Pal , Anirban Kundu , Abhay Singh , Raj Shekhar , Kunal Sinha

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a novel challenging task with the goal of retrieving an image among a set of candidates, which better represents the meaning of an ambiguous word within a given context. In this paper, we make a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anastasia Kritharoula , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

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

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

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

In this paper, we made a survey on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Near about in all major languages around the world, research in WSD has been conducted upto different extents. In this paper, we have gone through a survey regarding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Alok Ranjan Pal , Diganta Saha

A large class of unsupervised algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is that of dictionary-based methods. Various algorithms have as the root Lesk's algorithm, which exploits the sense definitions in the dictionary directly. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Doina Tatar , Gabriela Serban , Andreea Mihis , Mihaiela Lupea , Dana Lupsa , Militon Frentiu

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 the LIAAD system that was ranked second place in the Word-in-Context challenge (WiC) featured in SemDeep-5. Our solution is based on a novel system for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) using contextual embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Loureiro , Alipio Jorge

External linguistic resources have been used for a very long time in information extraction. These methods enrich a document with data that are semantically equivalent, in order to improve recall. For instance, some of these methods use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Jacquemin , Caroline Brun , Claude Roux

Distributional semantics based on neural approaches is a cornerstone of Natural Language Processing, with surprising connections to human meaning representation as well. Recent Transformer-based Language Models have proven capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Daniel Loureiro , Alípio Mário Jorge , Jose Camacho-Collados

Understanding the meaning of words in context is a fundamental capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite extensive evaluation efforts, the extent to which LLMs show evidence that they truly grasp word senses remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Domenico Meconi , Simone Stirpe , Federico Martelli , Leonardo Lavalle , Roberto Navigli

Biomedical word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an important intermediate task in many natural language processing applications such as named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, and relation extraction. In this paper, we employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 A. K. M. Sabbir , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Ramakanth Kavuluru