LexicoMatic: Automatic Creation of Multilingual Lexical-Semantic Dictionaries

LexicoMatic is a state-of-the-art approach to the automatic creation of multilingual dictionaries. Our approach leverages definition-selection WSD and label projection via word alignment to construct and expand dictionaries in new languages.

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@InProceedings{martelli-EtAl:2023:ijcnlp,
  author    = {Martelli, Federico  and  Procopio, Luigi  and  Barba, Edoardo  and  Navigli, Roberto},
  title     = {LexicoMatic: Automatic Creation of Multilingual Lexical-Semantic Dictionaries},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  month          = {November},
  year           = {2023},
  address        = {Nusa Dua, Bali},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {820--833},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-long.53}
}

License

This project is released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license (see LICENSE.txt).

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the ERC Consolidator Grant MOUSSE No. 726487, of the ELEXIS project No. 731015 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, and of the PNRR MUR project PE0000013-FAIR. The authors thank Babelscape for supporting and performing the annotation and evaluation work in many languages