SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC)

Federico Martelli, Najla Kalach, Gabriele Tola, Roberto Navigli


Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the first SemEval task on Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Word-in-Context disambiguation (MCL-WiC). This task allows the largely under-investigated inherent ability of systems to discriminate between word senses within and across languages to be evaluated, dropping the requirement of a fixed sense inventory. Framed as a binary classification, our task is divided into two parts. In the multilingual sub-task, participating systems are required to determine whether two target words, each occurring in a different context within the same language, express the same meaning or not. Instead, in the cross-lingual part, systems are asked to perform the task in a cross-lingual scenario, in which the two target words and their corresponding contexts are provided in two different languages. We illustrate our task, as well as the construction of our manually-created dataset including five languages, namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Russian, and the results of the participating systems. Datasets and results are available at: https://github.com/SapienzaNLP/mcl-wic.
Anthology ID:
2021.semeval-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
24–36
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.3
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Cite (ACL):
Federico Martelli, Najla Kalach, Gabriele Tola, and Roberto Navigli. 2021. SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC). In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 24–36, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation (MCL-WiC) (Martelli et al., SemEval 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.3.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.3.mp4
Code
 SapienzaNLP/mcl-wic
Data
WiC