RUSSE 2018 Word Sense Induction Task

The shared task is structurally similar to prior WSI tasks for the English language, such as SemEval 2007 WSI and SemEval 2010 WSI&D tasks. We use the “lexical sample” settings. Namely, we provide the participants with the set of contexts representing examples of ambiguous words, like the word “bank” in “In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.” For each context, a participant needs to disambiguate one target word. Note that, we do not provide any sense inventory: the participant can assign sense identifiers of their choice to a context, e.g., “bank#1” or “bank (area)”.