Improved Word Sense Disambiguation with Enhanced Sense Representations (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing supervised word sense disambiguation systems do not provide enough information about word senses. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate synonyms, example phrases or sentences showing usage of word senses and sense gloss of hypernyms into the sense representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves an F1 score of 82.0% on the standard benchmark test dataset of the English all-words WSD task. |
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