Incorporating Glosses into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation

Fuli Luo, Tianyu Liu, Qiaolin Xia, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui


Abstract
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to identify the correct meaning of polysemous words in the particular context. Lexical resources like WordNet which are proved to be of great help for WSD in the knowledge-based methods. However, previous neural networks for WSD always rely on massive labeled data (context), ignoring lexical resources like glosses (sense definitions). In this paper, we integrate the context and glosses of the target word into a unified framework in order to make full use of both labeled data and lexical knowledge. Therefore, we propose GAS: a gloss-augmented WSD neural network which jointly encodes the context and glosses of the target word. GAS models the semantic relationship between the context and the gloss in an improved memory network framework, which breaks the barriers of the previous supervised methods and knowledge-based methods. We further extend the original gloss of word sense via its semantic relations in WordNet to enrich the gloss information. The experimental results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art systems on several English all-words WSD datasets.
Anthology ID:
P18-1230
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2473–2482
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1230
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1230
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Cite (ACL):
Fuli Luo, Tianyu Liu, Qiaolin Xia, Baobao Chang, and Zhifang Sui. 2018. Incorporating Glosses into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2473–2482, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Incorporating Glosses into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation (Luo et al., ACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1230.pdf
Poster:
 P18-1230.Poster.pdf
Code
 jimiyulu/WSD_MemNN
Data
Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Evaluation Framework and Empirical Comparison