KSAA-CAD Shared Task: Contemporary Arabic Dictionary for Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation

Waad Alshammari, Amal Almazrua, Asma Al Wazrah, Rawan Almatham, Muneera Alhoshan, Abdulrahman Alosaimy


Abstract
This paper outlines the KSAA-CAD shared task, highlighting the Contemporary Arabic Language Dictionary within the scenario of developing a Reverse Dictionary (RD) system and enhancing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) capabilities. The first KSAA-RD (Al-Matham et al., 2023) highlighted significant gaps in the domain of RDs, which are designed to retrieve words by their meanings or definitions. This shared task comprises two tasks: RD and WSD. The RD task focuses on identifying word embeddings that most accurately match a given definition, termed a “gloss,” in Arabic. Conversely, the WSD task involves determining the specific meaning of a word in context, particularly when the word has multiple meanings. The winning team achieved the highest-ranking score of 0.0644 in RD using Electra embeddings. In this paper, we describe the methods employed by the participating teams and provide insights into the future direction of KSAA-CAD.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.74
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Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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677–685
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Waad Alshammari, Amal Almazrua, Asma Al Wazrah, Rawan Almatham, Muneera Alhoshan, and Abdulrahman Alosaimy. 2024. KSAA-CAD Shared Task: Contemporary Arabic Dictionary for Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 677–685, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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KSAA-CAD Shared Task: Contemporary Arabic Dictionary for Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation (Alshammari et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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