Papers by William Shiyuan Wang
Context and POS in Action: A Comparative Study of Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Human and Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Ambiguity is pervasive in language, yet we resolve it effortlessly and unconsciously . ambiguity is common because languages allow words to take on multiple meanings . |
| Approach: | They build a sentence-pair dataset to examine how context and POS influence homonym resolution in humans and large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset compared humans and large language models to determine how POS and context influence homonym resolution in humans. |
Exploring Layer-wise Representations of English and Chinese Homonymy in Pre-trained Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | lexical ambiguity can arise due to the misunderstanding of its multiple senses. |
| Approach: | They propose to use part of speech to examine homonyms in Chinese and English . they find no universal layer depth excels in differentiating homnomial representations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves contextualization of homonym representations in Chinese . the results challenge the simplistic understanding of their inner workings, the authors say . |