Towards Cross-Linguistic Semantic Grounding using Dictionary Graph Analysis

Ethan Eschrich, Zoey Liu


Abstract
Previous work has explored the structure of dictionaries as directed graphs, with arcs between words when one word is used in the definition of another. We analyze the efficacy of these methodologies and explore the cross-linguistic patterns of the strongly connected components of multiple monolingual dictionaries. We find that the number of sources in the condensation graph of a directed dictionary graph is roughly stable across multiple different languages, and present future research directions.
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2024.mrl-1.14
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Jonne Sälevä, Abraham Owodunni
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186–188
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Ethan Eschrich and Zoey Liu. 2024. Towards Cross-Linguistic Semantic Grounding using Dictionary Graph Analysis. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024), pages 186–188, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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