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In this paper, we applied a novel learning algorithm, namely, Deep Belief Networks (DBN) to word sense disambiguation (WSD). DBN is a probabilistic generative model composed of multiple layers of hidden units. DBN uses Restricted Boltzmann…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Hiroya Takamura , Manabu Okumura

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, the problem of disambiguating a target word for Polish is approached by searching for related words with known meaning. These relatives are used to build a training corpus from unannotated text. This technique is improved by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Piotr Przybyła

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

Princeton WordNet is one of the most important resources for natural language processing, but is only available for English. While it has been translated using the expand approach to many other languages, this is an expensive manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mihael Arcan , John McCrae , Paul Buitelaar

This paper describes a set of comparative experiments, including cross-corpus evaluation, between five alternative algorithms for supervised Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), namely Naive Bayes, Exemplar-based learning, SNoW, Decision Lists,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gerard Escudero , Lluis Marquez , German Rigau

Despite the success achieved on various natural language processing tasks, word embeddings are difficult to interpret due to the dense vector representations. This paper focuses on interpreting the embeddings for various aspects, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ting-Yun Chang , Ta-Chung Chi , Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

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

In this paper, we are going to focus on speed up of the Word Sense Disambiguation procedure by filtering the relevant senses of an ambiguous word through Part-of-Speech Tagging. First, this proposed approach performs the Part-of-Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Alok Ranjan Pal , Anupam Munshi , Diganta Saha

Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or type. We discuss which recent word sense…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Yorick Wilks , Mark Stevenson

As a key natural language processing (NLP) task, word sense disambiguation (WSD) evaluates how well NLP models can understand the lexical semantics of words under specific contexts. Benefited from the large-scale annotation, current WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ying Su , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Tong Zhang

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

This paper proposes an efficient example selection method for example-based word sense disambiguation systems. To construct a practical size database, a considerable overhead for manual sense disambiguation is required. Our method is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Atsushi Fujii , Kentaro Inui , Takenobu Tokunaga , Hozumi Tanaka

Neural word representations have proven useful in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks due to their ability to efficiently model complex semantic and syntactic word relationships. However, most techniques model only one representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Andrew Trask , Phil Michalak , John Liu

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

Humans often make creative use of words to express novel senses. A long-standing effort in natural language processing has been focusing on word sense disambiguation (WSD), but little has been explored about how the sense inventory of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Lei Yu , Yang Xu

We present two supervised (pre-)training methods to incorporate gloss definitions from lexical resources into neural language models (LMs). The training improves our models' performance for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) but also benefits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Norman Meuschke , Bela Gipp

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

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 presents a corpus-based approach to word sense disambiguation that builds an ensemble of Naive Bayesian classifiers, each of which is based on lexical features that represent co--occurring words in varying sized windows of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ted Pedersen