WiC-TSV: An Evaluation Benchmark for Target Sense Verification of Words in Context

Anna Breit, Artem Revenko, Kiamehr Rezaee, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados


Abstract
We present WiC-TSV, a new multi-domain evaluation benchmark for Word Sense Disambiguation. More specifically, we introduce a framework for Target Sense Verification of Words in Context which grounds its uniqueness in the formulation as binary classification task thus being independent of external sense inventories, and the coverage of various domains. This makes the dataset highly flexible for the evaluation of a diverse set of models and systems in and across domains. WiC-TSV provides three different evaluation settings, depending on the input signals provided to the model. We set baseline performance on the dataset using state-of-the-art language models. Experimental results show that even though these models can perform decently on the task, there remains a gap between machine and human performance, especially in out-of-domain settings. WiC-TSV data is available at https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/23683.
Anthology ID:
2021.eacl-main.140
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
Month:
April
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Paola Merlo, Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty
Venue:
EACL
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1635–1645
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.140
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.140
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Anna Breit, Artem Revenko, Kiamehr Rezaee, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Jose Camacho-Collados. 2021. WiC-TSV: An Evaluation Benchmark for Target Sense Verification of Words in Context. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 1635–1645, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
WiC-TSV: An Evaluation Benchmark for Target Sense Verification of Words in Context (Breit et al., EACL 2021)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.140.pdf
Code
 semantic-web-company/wic-tsv
Data
WiC-TSVSuperGLUEWiC