@inproceedings{conia-navigli-2021-framing,
    title = "Framing Word Sense Disambiguation as a Multi-Label Problem for Model-Agnostic Knowledge Integration",
    author = "Conia, Simone  and
      Navigli, Roberto",
    editor = "Merlo, Paola  and
      Tiedemann, Jorg  and
      Tsarfaty, Reut",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.eacl-main.286/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.286",
    pages = "3269--3275",
    abstract = "Recent studies treat Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) as a single-label classification problem in which one is asked to choose only the best-fitting sense for a target word, given its context. However, gold data labelled by expert annotators suggest that maximizing the probability of a single sense may not be the most suitable training objective for WSD, especially if the sense inventory of choice is fine-grained. In this paper, we approach WSD as a multi-label classification problem in which multiple senses can be assigned to each target word. Not only does our simple method bear a closer resemblance to how human annotators disambiguate text, but it can also be seamlessly extended to exploit structured knowledge from semantic networks to achieve state-of-the-art results in English all-words WSD."
}