Challenge: Existing unsupervised methods for word sense disambiguation cannot work for HowNet-based WSD because of its uniqueness.
Approach: They propose a method which exploits the masked language model task of pre-trained language models to conduct word sense disambiguation using a lexical knowledge base as the sense inventory.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves significantly better performance than baseline methods.

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