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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification
%A Mederake, Nathalie
%A Urbach, Nico
%A Fischer, Hanna
%A Lameli, Alfred
%S Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%F mederake-etal-2026-onomasiological
%X We propose a taxonomy-guided approach to semantic alignment that assigns lexicographic senses to an onomasiological taxonomy derived from the Hallig–Wartburg/Post system. Using an LLM under strict taxonomic constraints, short and heterogeneous meaning descriptions are assigned to a common conceptual space. Evaluation against expert annotation shows that run-to-run model agreement (kappa = 0.73) closely matches human agreement (kappa = 0.74), with robustness at coarse taxonomic levels and predictable degradation at finer granularity. A qualitative network analysis demonstrates the resulting potential for cross-dictionary exploration of dialectal variation in semantics.
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%P 123-138

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[Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.10/) (Mederake et al., VarDial 2026)

• Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification (Mederake et al., VarDial 2026)

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• Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, and Alfred Lameli. 2026. Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 123–138, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.