Word Sense Disambiguation using Bidirectional LSTM

Abstract

Word Sense Disambiguation is considered one of the challenging problems in natural language processing(NLP). LSTM-based Word Sense Disambiguation techniques have been shown effective through experiments. Models have been proposed before that employed LSTM to achieve state-of-the-art results. This paper presents an implementation and analysis of a Bidirectional LSTM model using openly available datasets (Semcor, MASC, SensEval-2 and SensEval-3) and knowledge base (WordNet). Our experiments showed that a similar state of the art results could be obtained with much less data or without external resources like knowledge graphs and parts of speech tagging.