Comparison of Pre-trained vs Custom-trained Word Embedding Models for Word Sense Disambiguation

  • Muhammad Farhat Ullah
    Department of Software Engineering, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Ali Saeed
    Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Software Engineering, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Naveed Hussain
    Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Software Engineering, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan dr.naveedhussain[at]ucp.edu.pk

Abstract

The prime objective of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is to develop such machines that can automatically recognize the actual meaning (sense) of ambiguous words in a sentence. WSD can improve various NLP and HCI challenges. Researchers explored a wide variety of methods to resolve this issue of sense ambiguity. However, majorly, their focus was on English and some other well-reputed languages. Urdu with more than 300 million users and a large amount of electronic text available on the web is still unexplored. In recent years, for a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, word embedding methods have proven extremely successful. This study evaluates, compares, and applies a variety of word embedding approaches to Urdu Word embedding (both Lexical Sample and All-Words), including pre-trained (Word2Vec, Glove, and FastText) as well as custom-trained (Word2Vec, Glove, and FastText trained on the Ur-Mono corpus). Two benchmark corpora are used for the evaluation in this study: (1) the UAW-WSD-18 corpus and (2) the ULS-WSD-18 corpus. For Urdu All-Words WSD tasks, top results have been achieved (Accuracy=60.07 and F1=0.45) using pre-trained FastText. For the Lexical Sample, WSD has been achieved (Accuracy=70.93 and F1=0.60) using custom-trained GloVe word embedding method.
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