English Word Sense Disambiguation in 2026: When the Labels Become the Bottleneck

arXiv:2609.17554 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-19

Updated: 2026-07-19

Comments: 48 pages, 10 figures. Code, data, and live leaderboard: https://glitetech.github.io/sensebench/

Project page: https://glitetech.github.io/sensebench

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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