Challenge: Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an open problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Approach: They propose a game-theoretic model that embeds ambiguous words as players of a non cooperative game and their senses as strategies that the players can select in order to play the games.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well on standard benchmarks and different tests on standard datasets.

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Challenge: Recent Word Sense Disambiguation systems have approached the upper bound of the task on standard evaluation benchmarks.
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Improved Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pre-Trained Contextualized Word Representations (D19-1)

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Challenge: Contextualized word representations are effective in downstream tasks such as question answering, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis.
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Language Modelling Makes Sense: Propagating Representations through WordNet for Full-Coverage Word Sense Disambiguation (P19-1)

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Challenge: Contextual embeddings address the problem of meaning conflation hampering word embeddables.
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Enhancing the Context Representation in Similarity-based Word Sense Disambiguation (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing similarity-based systems focus on learning sense embeddings using only the sentence where the word appears, neglecting its global context.
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Field Embedding: A Unified Grain-Based Framework for Word Representation (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Current methods focus on learning word embeddings while linguistic information is discarded after the learning.
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Sparsity Makes Sense: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Sparse Contextualized Word Representations (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Using sparse word embeddings is highly applicable for word sense disambiguation (WSD) .
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Outcome: The proposed framework achieves an aggregated F score of 78.8 over five standard word sense disambiguating benchmark datasets.
With More Contexts Comes Better Performance: Contextualized Sense Embeddings for All-Round Word Sense Disambiguation (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Contextualized word embeddings have been used effectively across several tasks in Natural Language Processing, but it is difficult to link them to structured sources of knowledge.
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SANDWiCH: Semantical Analysis of Neighbours for Disambiguating Words in Context ad Hoc (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Recent studies show that language understanding offered by chat-based Large Language Models is limited and far from human-like performance.
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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.
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WiC: the Word-in-Context Dataset for Evaluating Context-Sensitive Meaning Representations (N19-1)

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Challenge: Existing word embeddings cannot model the dynamic nature of words’ semantics, i.e., the property of words to correspond to potentially different meanings.
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