Semi-supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Example Similarity Graph

Rie Yatabe, Minoru Sasaki


Abstract
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a well-known problem in the natural language processing. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in applying neural net-works and machine learning techniques to solve WSD problems. However, these previ-ous supervised approaches often suffer from the lack of manually sense-tagged exam-ples. In this paper, to solve these problems, we propose a semi-supervised WSD method using graph embeddings based learning method in order to make effective use of labeled and unlabeled examples. The results of the experiments show that the proposed method performs better than the previous semi-supervised WSD method. Moreover, the graph structure between examples is effective for WSD and it is effective to utilize a graph structure obtained by fine-tuning BERT in the proposed method.
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2020.textgraphs-1.6
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Proceedings of the Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs)
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Dmitry Ustalov, Swapna Somasundaran, Alexander Panchenko, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Ioana Hulpuș, Peter Jansen, Abhik Jana
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TextGraphs
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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51–59
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.textgraphs-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.textgraphs-1.6
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Rie Yatabe and Minoru Sasaki. 2020. Semi-supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Example Similarity Graph. In Proceedings of the Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs), pages 51–59, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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