Sense-Annotated Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation in Multiple Languages and Domains

Bianca Scarlini, Tommaso Pasini, Roberto Navigli


Abstract
The knowledge acquisition bottleneck problem dramatically hampers the creation of sense-annotated data for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Sense-annotated data are scarce for English and almost absent for other languages. This limits the range of action of deep-learning approaches, which today are at the base of any NLP task and are hungry for data. We mitigate this issue and encourage further research in multilingual WSD by releasing to the NLP community five large datasets annotated with word-senses in five different languages, namely, English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and 5 distinct datasets in English, each for a different semantic domain. We show that supervised WSD models trained on our data attain higher performance than when trained on other automatically-created corpora. We release all our data containing more than 15 million annotated instances in 5 different languages at http://trainomatic.org/onesec.
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2020.lrec-1.723
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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5905–5911
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English
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Bianca Scarlini, Tommaso Pasini, and Roberto Navigli. 2020. Sense-Annotated Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation in Multiple Languages and Domains. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5905–5911, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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