LTRS: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation via Learning to Rank Senses
Hansi Wang, Yue Wang, Qiliang Liang, Yang Liu
Abstract
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a fundamental task critical for accurate semantic understanding. Conventional training strategies usually only consider predefined senses for target words and learn each of them from relatively limited instances, neglecting the influence of similar ones. To address these problems, we propose the method of Learning to Rank Senses (LTRS) to enhance the task. This method helps a model learn to represent and disambiguate senses from a broadened range of instances via ranking an expanded list of sense definitions. By employing LTRS, our model achieves a SOTA F1 score of 79.6% in Chinese WSD and exhibits robustness in low-resource settings. Moreover, it shows excellent training efficiency, achieving faster convergence than previous methods. This provides a new technical approach to WSD and may also apply to the task for other languages.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang-etal-2025-ltrs,
title = "{LTRS}: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation via Learning to Rank Senses",
author = "Wang, Hansi and
Wang, Yue and
Liang, Qiliang and
Liu, Yang",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.132/",
pages = "1934--1942"
}