Challenge: Word Sense Disambiguation is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing . supervised systems need to be trained on word-by-word basis, a problem that is beyond reach for resource-rich languages like English.
Approach: They release six large-scale sense-annotated datasets in multiple languages to pave the way for supervised multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation.
Outcome: The results show that large-scale sense annotations can be used as training sets for supervised systems.

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