When a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system is trained on one domain but applied to a different domain, a drop in accuracy is frequently observed. This highlights the importance of domain adaptation for word sense disambiguation. In this paper, we first show that an active learning approach can be successfully used to perform domain adaptation of WSD systems. Then, by using the predominant sense predicted by expectation-maximization (EM) and adopting a count-merging technique, we improve the effectiveness of the original adaptation process achieved by the basic active learning approach.
One interesting setting was proposed in REF where they apply active learning for word sense disambiguation in a domain adaptation setting.
Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation
45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Computer Science