Word sense disambiguation: a survey

TL;DR

This survey comprehensively reviews various approaches, recent advancements, and benchmark results in Word Sense Disambiguation across multiple languages, including Indian languages and Bengali, highlighting the current state and progress in the field.

Contribution

It provides a detailed overview of WSD research, approaches, recent developments, and benchmark performances, especially focusing on Indian languages and Bengali.

Findings

WSD research has been conducted extensively across major languages.

Recent benchmarks show significant progress in WSD performance.

Indian languages and Bengali have emerging WSD research efforts.

Abstract

In this paper, we made a survey on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Near about in all major languages around the world, research in WSD has been conducted upto different extents. In this paper, we have gone through a survey regarding the different approaches adopted in different research works, the State of the Art in the performance in this domain, recent works in different Indian languages and finally a survey in Bengali language. We have made a survey on different competitions in this field and the bench mark results, obtained from those competitions.