Challenge: Word Sense Disambiguiation and Word sense Induction are considered independent problems, but they are often neglected in practice.
Approach: They propose an unsupervised task of learning a soft clustering amongwords that defines a set of concepts directly from data.
Outcome: The proposed approach leverages both a local and global cross-lexicon view to induce concepts and also senses in the context of the proposed task.

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