Unsupervised, Knowledge-Free, and Interpretable Word Sense Disambiguation

Alexander Panchenko, Fide Marten, Eugen Ruppert, Stefano Faralli, Dmitry Ustalov, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Chris Biemann


Abstract
Interpretability of a predictive model is a powerful feature that gains the trust of users in the correctness of the predictions. In word sense disambiguation (WSD), knowledge-based systems tend to be much more interpretable than knowledge-free counterparts as they rely on the wealth of manually-encoded elements representing word senses, such as hypernyms, usage examples, and images. We present a WSD system that bridges the gap between these two so far disconnected groups of methods. Namely, our system, providing access to several state-of-the-art WSD models, aims to be interpretable as a knowledge-based system while it remains completely unsupervised and knowledge-free. The presented tool features a Web interface for all-word disambiguation of texts that makes the sense predictions human readable by providing interpretable word sense inventories, sense representations, and disambiguation results. We provide a public API, enabling seamless integration.
Anthology ID:
D17-2016
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Lucia Specia, Matt Post, Michael Paul
Venue:
EMNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
91–96
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-2016
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-2016
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Alexander Panchenko, Fide Marten, Eugen Ruppert, Stefano Faralli, Dmitry Ustalov, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Chris Biemann. 2017. Unsupervised, Knowledge-Free, and Interpretable Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 91–96, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Unsupervised, Knowledge-Free, and Interpretable Word Sense Disambiguation (Panchenko et al., EMNLP 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-2016.pdf
Code
 uhh-lt/wsd