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Word sense induction (WSI) is the task of unsupervised clustering of word usages within a sentence to distinguish senses. Recent work obtain strong results by clustering lexical substitutes derived from pre-trained RNN language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Asaf Amrami , Yoav Goldberg

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

An established method for Word Sense Induction (WSI) uses a language model to predict probable substitutes for target words, and induces senses by clustering these resulting substitute vectors. We replace the ngram-based language model (LM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Asaf Amrami , Yoav Goldberg

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 problem of grouping occurrences of an ambiguous word according to the expressed sense of this word. Recently a new approach to this task was proposed, which generates possible substitutes for the ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Nikolay Arefyev , Boris Sheludko , Tatiana Aleksashina

Word Sense Induction (WSI) is the ability to automatically induce word senses from corpora. The WSI task was first proposed to overcome the limitations of manually annotated corpus that are required in word sense disambiguation systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Edilson A. Corrêa , Diego R. Amancio

Word sense induction (WSI), which addresses polysemy by unsupervised discovery of multiple word senses, resolves ambiguities for downstream NLP tasks and also makes word representations more interpretable. This paper proposes an accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Haw-Shiuan Chang , Amol Agrawal , Ananya Ganesh , Anirudha Desai , Vinayak Mathur , Alfred Hough , Andrew McCallum

Ambiguous words are often found in modern digital communications. Lexical ambiguity challenges traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) methods, due to limited data. Consequently, the efficiency of translation, information retrieval, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 T. G. D. K. Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough

Word sense induction (WSI) is a difficult problem in natural language processing that involves the unsupervised automatic detection of a word's senses (i.e. meanings). Recent work achieves significant results on the WSI task by pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hadi Abdine , Moussa Kamal Eddine , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Davide Buscaldi

To avoid the "meaning conflation deficiency" of word embeddings, a number of models have aimed to embed individual word senses. These methods at one time performed well on tasks such as word sense induction (WSI), but they have since been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Alan Ansell , Felipe Bravo-Marquez , Bernhard Pfahringer

Polysemy and synonymy are two crucial interrelated facets of lexical ambiguity. While both phenomena are widely documented in lexical resources and have been studied extensively in NLP, leading to dedicated systems, they are often being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Bastien Liétard , Pascal Denis , Mikaela Keller

We present a word-sense induction method based on pre-trained masked language models (MLMs), which can cheaply scale to large vocabularies and large corpora. The result is a corpus which is sense-tagged according to a corpus-derived sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Matan Eyal , Shoval Sadde , Hillel Taub-Tabib , Yoav Goldberg

Conventional word sense induction (WSI) methods usually represent each instance with discrete linguistic features or cooccurrence features, and train a model for each polysemous word individually. In this work, we propose to learn sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Linfeng Song , Zhiguo Wang , Haitao Mi , Daniel Gildea

We develop and test a novel unsupervised algorithm for word sense induction and disambiguation which uses topological data analysis. Typical approaches to the problem involve clustering, based on simple low level features of distance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Michael Rawson , Samuel Dooley , Mithun Bharadwaj , Rishabh Choudhary

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), 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

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

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

The rise of generative chat-based Large Language Models (LLMs) over the past two years has spurred a race to develop systems that promise near-human conversational and reasoning experiences. However, recent studies indicate that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Daniel Guzman-Olivares , Lara Quijano-Sanchez , Federico Liberatore

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
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