Supersenses

We present a new framework for classify- ing common nouns that extends named- entity classification. We used a fixed set of 26 semantic labels, which we called su- persenses. These …...

Supervised word sense disambiguation has proven incredibly difficult. Despite significant effort, there has been little suc- cess at using contextual features to accu- rately assign the sense of a word. …...

Coarse-grained semantic categories such as supersenses have proven useful for a range of downstream tasks such as question an- swering or machine translation. To date, no effort has been put …...