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@@ -36,28 +36,17 @@ This is the official dataset repository of [WiC is Not WSD: A Study on LLMs and
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  ## About
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  ![Example of a WiC instance where sense granularity changes the answer](main_figure.png)
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- Word-in-Context (WiC) remains challenging for language models, despite recent progress on lexical-semantic tasks.
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- Given two sentences that both contain the same target word, a model must decide whether the word is used with the
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- **same meaning** in both (`True`) or with **different meanings** (`False`). Unlike Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD),
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- WiC provides no sense inventory, so the model must also guess *how fine-grained* the intended distinction is.
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- In the example above, both uses of *club* refer to an organised group at a coarse level of granularity, giving the
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- human label True, but an LLM that separates a sports club from a decision-making body predicts False.
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- We hypothesise that much of the difficulty of WiC comes from this missing specification of sense granularity rather
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- than from comparing two contexts. To study this, the paper evaluates open LLMs on WiC and on traditional WSD under
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- comparable settings, and releases the two WiC datasets in this repository:
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- - **Coarse-grained WiC** (2,798 pairs, 20 target words): built automatically from CoarseWSD-20 by pairing sentences
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- that contain the same target word and comparing their coarse sense labels.
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- - **Fine-grained WiC** (1,185 pairs, 924 target words): a newly constructed dataset that follows the construction of
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- the original WiC benchmark but draws on WordNet 3.1 noun and verb entries, with modifications intended to limit
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- memorisation by LLMs. Each instance also carries the WordNet definition of the target word in each sentence.
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- We find that providing candidate senses, as in traditional WSD, improves WiC performance in all settings, and that
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- explicit sense information helps models make more consistent and targeted judgements. Human evaluation further shows
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- that many apparent WiC errors reflect label ambiguity or mismatches between model and annotator sense boundaries
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- rather than failures of lexical understanding. In particular, LLMs tend to overthink the sense distinction, often
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- leading to errors based on overly fine-grained distinctions.
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  ## Dataset
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  ## About
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  ![Example of a WiC instance where sense granularity changes the answer](main_figure.png)
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+ This repository contains two Word-in-Context (WiC) evaluation datasets. Given two sentences that contain the same
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+ target word, the task is to decide whether the word has the **same meaning** in both (`True`) or **different
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+ meanings** (`False`). The two datasets differ in the granularity of the sense distinctions they encode, as
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+ illustrated above for the word *club*:
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+ - **Coarse-grained WiC**: 2,798 sentence pairs over 20 ambiguous nouns, built from CoarseWSD-20 by pairing
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+ sentences with the same target word and comparing their coarse-grained sense labels.
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+ - **Fine-grained WiC**: 1,185 sentence pairs over 924 target words, newly constructed from WordNet 3.1 noun and verb
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+ entries. Each instance also includes the WordNet definition of the target word in each sentence.
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+ Both datasets are evaluation sets and are released as a single `test` split.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ## Dataset
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