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GRASP at CoMeDi Shared Task: Multi-Strategy Modeling of Annotator Behavior in Multi-Lingual Semantic Judgments
This paper presents the GRASP team’s systems for the CoMeDi 2025 shared task on disagreement prediction in semantic annotation. The …
David Alfter, Mattias Appelgren
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DWUGs-IT: Extending and Standardizing Lexical Semantic Change Detection for Italian
Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD) is the task of determining whether a word has undergone a change in meaning over time. There …
Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, Nina Tahmasebi
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Automatically Generated Definitions and their utility for Modeling Word Meaning
Modeling lexical semantics is a challenging task, often suffering from interpretability pitfalls. In this paper, we delve into the …
Francesco Periti, David Alfter, Nina Tahmasebi
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Enhancing Swedish Parliamentary Data: Annotation, Accessibility, and Application in Digital Humanities
The Swedish bicameral parliament data presents a valuable textual resource that is of interest for many researches and scholars. The …
Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Claes Ohlsson, Nina Tahmasebi, Henrik Björck, Leif Runefelt
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More DWUGs: Extending and Evaluating Word Usage Graph Datasets in Multiple Languages
Word Usage Graphs (WUGs) represent human semantic proximity judgments for pairs of word uses in a weighted graph, which can be …
Dominik Schlechtweg, Pierluigi Cassotti, Bill Noble, David Alfter, Sabine Schulte Im Walde, Nina Tahmasebi
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The DURel Annotation Tool: Using Fine-Tuned LLMs to Discover Non-Recorded Senses in Multiple Languages
To make these new techniques accessible to researchers outside of Computational Linguistics, we have developed the DURel tool …
Pauline Sander, Simon Hengchen, Wei Zhao, Xiaocheng Ma, Emma Sköldberg, Shafqat Virk, Dominik Schlechtweg
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Sense Through Time: Diachronic Word Sense Annotations for Word Sense Induction and Lexical Semantic Change Detection
There has been extensive work on human word sense annotation, i.e., manually labeling word uses in natural texts according to their …
Dominik Schlechtweg, Frank D. Zamora-Reina, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Nikolay Arefyev
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Enriching Word Usage Graphs with Cluster Definitions
We present a dataset of word usage graphs (WUGs), where the existing WUGs for multiple languages are enriched with cluster labels …
Andrey Kutuzov, Mariia Fedorova, Dominik Schlechtweg, Nikolay Arefyev
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Presence or Absence: Are Unknown Word Usages in Dictionaries?
There has been a surge of interest in computational modeling of semantic change. The foci of previous works are on detecting and …
Xianghe Ma, Dominik Schlechtweg, Wei Zhao
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Complexity and Indecision: A Proof-of-Concept Exploration of Lexical Complexity and Lexical Semantic Change
This paper explores the intersection of lexical complexity prediction and lexical semantic change detection. We investigate the …
David Alfter
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