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WSD — Word Sense Disambiguation

Fact

An NLP task for picking a word’s meaning from nearby words.

In Plain Words

WSD is a nosy friend. You say “bank,” and it looks for a fishing rod or a debit card.

You meet it in search and translation. It keeps Q&A bots from chasing the wrong meaning.

Related Concepts

NLU
WSD clears up word meaning before a sentence can be understood.

WordNet
WordNet often gives WSD the list of possible meanings.

BERT
BERT helps WSD use nearby words to pick the right meaning.

MT
WSD helps MT choose the right word in another language.