# You Shall Know the Most Frequent Sense by the Company it Keeps

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06729 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06729/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Aug 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [On the Curious Case of ℓ2 norm of Sense Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.14815/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Identification of the most frequent sense of a polysemous word is an important semantic task. We introduce two concepts that can benefit MFS detection: companions, which are the most frequently co-occurring words, and the most frequent translation in a bitext. We present two novel methods that incorporate these new concepts, and show that they advance the state of the art on MFS detection.