Leveraging Lexical Substitutes for Unsupervised Word Sense Induction
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https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v32i1.12017Keywords:
word sense induction, lexical substitutionAbstract
Word sense induction is the most prominent unsupervised approach to lexical disambiguation. It clusters word instances, typically represented by their bag-of-words contexts. Therefore, uninformative and ambiguous contexts present a major challenge. In this paper, we investigate the use of an alternative instance representation based on lexical substitutes, i.e., contextually suitable, meaning-preserving replacements. Using lexical substitutes predicted by a state-of-the-art automatic system and a simple clustering algorithm, we outperform bag-of-words instance representations and compete with much more complex structured probabilistic models. Furthermore, we show that an oracle based on manually-labeled lexical substitutes yields yet substantially higher performance. Taken together, this provides evidence for a complementarity between word sense induction and lexical substitution that has not been given much consideration before.
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2018-04-27
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Alagić, D., Šnajder, J., & Padó, S. (2018). Leveraging Lexical Substitutes for Unsupervised Word Sense Induction. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v32i1.12017
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Main Track: NLP and Machine Learning