UAlberta at SemEval 2022 Task 2: Leveraging Glosses and Translations for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection

Bradley Hauer, Seeratpal Jaura, Talgat Omarov, Grzegorz Kondrak


Abstract
We describe the University of Alberta systems for the SemEval-2022 Task 2 on multilingual idiomaticity detection. Working under the assumption that idiomatic expressions are noncompositional, our first method integrates information on the meanings of the individual words of an expression into a binary classifier. Further hypothesizing that literal and idiomatic expressions translate differently, our second method translates an expression in context, and uses a lexical knowledge base to determine if the translation is literal. Our approaches are grounded in linguistic phenomena, and leverage existing sources of lexical knowledge. Our results offer support for both approaches, particularly the former.
Anthology ID:
2022.semeval-1.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
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Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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145–150
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.16
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.16
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Bradley Hauer, Seeratpal Jaura, Talgat Omarov, and Grzegorz Kondrak. 2022. UAlberta at SemEval 2022 Task 2: Leveraging Glosses and Translations for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 145–150, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UAlberta at SemEval 2022 Task 2: Leveraging Glosses and Translations for Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection (Hauer et al., SemEval 2022)
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