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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

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

We compare four similarity-based estimation methods against back-off and maximum-likelihood estimation methods on a pseudo-word sense disambiguation task in which we controlled for both unigram and bigram frequency. The similarity-based…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ido Dagan , Lillian Lee , Fernando Pereira

Domain adaptation or transfer learning using pre-trained language models such as BERT has proven to be an effective approach for many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we propose to formulate word sense disambiguation as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Boon Peng Yap , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Word sense disambiguation is a fundamental challenge in natural language understanding. Current methods are primarily aimed at coarse-grained representations (e.g. WordNet synsets or FrameNet frames) and require hand-annotated training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kexin Zhao , Ken Forbus

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

Learning representations for semantic relations is important for various tasks such as analogy detection, relational search, and relation classification. Although there have been several proposals for learning representations for individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Danushka Bollegala , Takanori Maehara , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Due to the high cost of manual annotation, learning directly from the web has attracted broad attention. One issue that limits their performance is the problem of visual polysemy. To address this issue, we present an adaptive multi-model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yazhou Yao , Zeren Sun , Fumin Shen , Li Liu , Limin Wang , Fan Zhu , Lizhong Ding , Gangshan Wu , Ling Shao

The number of senses of a given word, or polysemy, is a very subjective notion, which varies widely across annotators and resources. We propose a novel method to estimate polysemy, based on simple geometry in the contextual embedding space.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Christos Xypolopoulos , Antoine J. -P. Tixier , Michalis Vazirgiannis

This paper describes an experimental comparison of seven different learning algorithms on the problem of learning to disambiguate the meaning of a word from context. The algorithms tested include statistical, neural-network, decision-tree,…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Raymond J. Mooney

Acquisition of multilingual training data continues to be a challenge in word sense disambiguation (WSD). To address this problem, unsupervised approaches have been proposed to automatically generate sense annotations for training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak , Yixing Luan , Arnob Mallik , Lili Mou

One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context. Resolving the WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Bilge Sipal , Ozcan Sari , Asena Teke , Nurullah Demirci

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

With the further development of informatization, more and more data is stored in the form of text. There are some loss of text during their generation and transmission. The paper aims to establish a language model based on the large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Ji Wen

The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modelling has been applied to identify complex words in texts and substitute them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Matthew Shardlow

This article presents a measure of semantic similarity in an IS-A taxonomy based on the notion of shared information content. Experimental evaluation against a benchmark set of human similarity judgments demonstrates that the measure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 P. Resnik

The meaning of polysemous words often varies in a highly productive yet predictable way. Generalizing the regularity between conventional senses to derive novel word meaning is crucial for automated processing of non-literal language uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Lei Yu

We introduce two different approaches for clustering semantically similar words. We accommodate ambiguity by allowing a word to belong to several clusters. Both methods use a graph-theoretic representation of words and their paradigmatic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Beate Dorow , Dominic Widdows , Katarina Ling , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Danilo Sergi , Elisha Moses

In this paper, we propose an alternative to deep neural networks for semantic information retrieval for the case of long documents. This new approach exploiting clustering techniques to take into account the meaning of words in Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Paul Mbathe Mekontchou , Armel Fotsoh , Bernabe Batchakui , Eddy Ella

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