[HTML][HTML] Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

JM List, R Forkel, SJ Greenhill, C Rzymski, J Englisch… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …

Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists

JM List - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of
colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the …

Linking norms, ratings, and relations of words and concepts across multiple language varieties

A Tjuka, R Forkel, JM List - Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
Psychologists and linguists collect various data on word and concept properties. In
psychology, scholars have accumulated norms and ratings for a large number of words in …

Syn2Vec: Synset colexification graphs for lexical semantic similarity

J Harvill, R Girju… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we focus on patterns of colexification (co-expressions of form-meaning
mapping in the lexicon) as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization, and use them to build …

Crosslingual transfer learning for low-resource languages based on multilingual colexification graphs

Y Liu, H Ye, L Weissweiler, R Pei, H Schütze - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In comparative linguistics, colexification refers to the phenomenon of a lexical form
conveying two or more distinct meanings. Existing work on colexification patterns relies on …

Colex2Lang: Language embeddings from semantic typology

Y Chen, R Biswas, J Bjerva - The 24th Nordic Conference on …, 2023 - vbn.aau.dk
In semantic typology, colexification refers to words with multiple meanings, either related
(polysemy) or unrelated (homophony). Studies of cross-linguistic colexification have yielded …

Translate to disambiguate: Zero-shot multilingual word sense disambiguation with pretrained language models

H Kang, T Blevins, L Zettlemoyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13803, 2023 - arxiv.org
Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) learn rich cross-lingual knowledge and can be
finetuned to perform well on diverse tasks such as translation and multilingual word sense …

Taxonomy of problems in lexical semantics

B Hauer, G Kondrak - Findings of the Association for …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Semantic tasks are rarely formally defined, and the exact relationship between them is an
open question. We introduce a taxonomy that elucidates the connection between several …

Colexifications for bootstrapping cross-lingual datasets: The case of phonology, concreteness, and affectiveness

Y Chen, J Bjerva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02646, 2023 - arxiv.org
Colexification refers to the linguistic phenomenon where a single lexical form is used to
convey multiple meanings. By studying cross-lingual colexifications, researchers have …

Aligning Alignments: Do Colexification and Distributional Similarity Align as Measures of cross-lingual Lexical Alignment?

T Karidi, E Grossman, O Abend - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
The data-driven investigation of the extent to which lexicons of different languages align has
mostly fallen into one of two categories: colexification-based and distributional. The two …