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#1 Unsupervised, Knowledge-Free, and Interpretable Word Sense Disambiguation [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi]

Authors: Alexander Panchenko ; Fide Marten ; Eugen Ruppert ; Stefano Faralli ; Dmitry Ustalov ; Simone Paolo Ponzetto ; Chris Biemann

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.