LTRS: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation via Learning to Rank Senses (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Conventional training strategies only consider predefined senses for target words and learn each of them from relatively limited instances, neglecting the influence of similar ones. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to rank senses to improve the task of word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) by ranking an expanded list of sense definitions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a SOTA F1 score of 79.6% in Chinese WSD and shows faster convergence than previous methods. |
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