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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

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

This paper offers a mini review of Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD), which is a multimodal extension of traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). VWSD helps tackle lexical ambiguity in vision-language tasks. While conventional WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shashini Nilukshi , Deshan Sumanathilaka

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

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

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a multi-modal task that aims to select, among a batch of candidate images, the one that best entails the target word's meaning within a limited context. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhuohao Yin , Xin Huang

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a novel challenging task that lies between linguistic sense disambiguation and fine-grained multimodal retrieval. The recent advancements in the development of visiolinguistic (VL) transformers…

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

In this paper we concentrate on the resolution of the lexical ambiguity that arises when a given word has several different meanings. This specific task is commonly referred to as word sense disambiguation (WSD). The task of WSD consists of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-09-13 A. Montoyo , M. Palomar , G. Rigau , A. Suarez

In this paper, we present a new approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) using an exemplar-based learning algorithm. This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense, including part of speech of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Hwee Tou Ng , Hian Beng Lee

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

In natural language processing, word-sense disambiguation (WSD) is an open problem concerned with identifying the correct sense of words in a particular context. To address this problem, we introduce a novel knowledge-based WSD system. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sunjae Kwon , Dongsuk Oh , Youngjoong Ko

Verb Sense Disambiguation is a well-known task in NLP, the aim is to find the correct sense of a verb in a sentence. Recently, this problem has been extended in a multimodal scenario, by exploiting both textual and visual features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sebastiano Vascon , Sinem Aslan , Gianluca Bigaglia , Lorenzo Giudice , Marcello Pelillo

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

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

A major obstacle in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is that word senses are not uniformly distributed, causing existing models to generally perform poorly on senses that are either rare or unseen during training. We propose a bi-encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Terra Blevins , Luke Zettlemoyer

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

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

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

We introduce a new task, visual sense disambiguation for verbs: given an image and a verb, assign the correct sense of the verb, i.e., the one that describes the action depicted in the image. Just as textual word sense disambiguation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Spandana Gella , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller
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