MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations
Dagmar Gromann, Hugo Goncalo Oliveira, Lucia Pitarch, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jordi Bernad, Eliot Bytyçi, Chiara Cantone, Sara Carvalho, Francesca Frontini, Radovan Garabik, Jorge Gracia, Letizia Granata, Fahad Khan, Timotej Knez, Penny Labropoulou, Chaya Liebeskind, Maria Pia Di Buono, Ana Ostroški Anić, Sigita Rackevičienė, Ricardo Rodrigues, Gilles Sérasset, Linas Selmistraitis, Mahammadou Sidibé, Purificação Silvano, Blerina Spahiu, Enriketa Sogutlu, Ranka Stanković, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Slavko Zitnik, Katerina Zdravkova
Abstract
Understanding the relation between the meanings of words is an important part of comprehending natural language. Prior work has either focused on analysing lexical semantic relations in word embeddings or probing pretrained language models (PLMs), with some exceptions. Given the rarity of highly multilingual benchmarks, it is unclear to what extent PLMs capture relational knowledge and are able to transfer it across languages. To start addressing this question, we propose MultiLexBATS, a multilingual parallel dataset of lexical semantic relations adapted from BATS in 15 languages including low-resource languages, such as Bambara, Lithuanian, and Albanian. As experiment on cross-lingual transfer of relational knowledge, we test the PLMs’ ability to (1) capture analogies across languages, and (2) predict translation targets. We find considerable differences across relation types and languages with a clear preference for hypernymy and antonymy as well as romance languages.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.1029
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
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- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11783–11793
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- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1029
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- Dagmar Gromann, Hugo Goncalo Oliveira, Lucia Pitarch, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jordi Bernad, Eliot Bytyçi, Chiara Cantone, Sara Carvalho, Francesca Frontini, Radovan Garabik, Jorge Gracia, Letizia Granata, Fahad Khan, Timotej Knez, Penny Labropoulou, Chaya Liebeskind, Maria Pia Di Buono, Ana Ostroški Anić, Sigita Rackevičienė, et al.. 2024. MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 11783–11793, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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- MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations (Gromann et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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Markdown (Informal)
[MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1029) (Gromann et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations (Gromann et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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- Dagmar Gromann, Hugo Goncalo Oliveira, Lucia Pitarch, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jordi Bernad, Eliot Bytyçi, Chiara Cantone, Sara Carvalho, Francesca Frontini, Radovan Garabik, Jorge Gracia, Letizia Granata, Fahad Khan, Timotej Knez, Penny Labropoulou, Chaya Liebeskind, Maria Pia Di Buono, Ana Ostroški Anić, Sigita Rackevičienė, et al.. 2024. MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 11783–11793, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.