Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects

H Khalilia, G Bella, AA Freihat, S Darma… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is
pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability …

A large and evolving cognate database

K Batsuren, G Bella, F Giunchiglia - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2022 - Springer
We present CogNet, a large-scale, automatically-built database of sense-tagged cognates—
words of common origin and meaning across languages. CogNet is continuously evolving …

Representing interlingual meaning in lexical databases

F Giunchiglia, G Bella, NC Nair, Y Chi, H Xu - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
In today's multilingual lexical databases, the majority of the world's languages are under-
represented. Beyond a mere issue of resource incompleteness, we show that existing lexical …

Diversity and language technology: how techno-linguistic bias can cause epistemic injustice

P Helm, G Bella, G Koch, F Giunchiglia - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13714, 2023 - arxiv.org
It is well known that AI-based language technology--large language models, machine
translation systems, multilingual dictionaries, and corpora--is currently limited to 2 to 3 …

Language diversity: Visible to humans, exploitable by machines

G Bella, E Byambadorj, Y Chandrashekar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) is a large multilingual lexical database with a focus
on language diversity and covering over a thousand languages. The aim of the database, as …

Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice

P Helm, G Bella, G Koch, F Giunchiglia - Ethics and Information …, 2024 - Springer
It is well known that AI-based language technology—large language models, machine
translation systems, multilingual dictionaries, and corpora—is currently limited to three …

Using linguistic typology to enrich multilingual lexicons: the case of lexical gaps in kinship

T Khishigsuren, G Bella, K Batsuren, AA Freihat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper describes a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic
diversity, based on knowledge from the field of lexical typology. We capture the …

Towards bridging the digital language divide

G Bella, P Helm, G Koch, F Giunchiglia - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13405, 2023 - arxiv.org
It is a well-known fact that current AI-based language technology--language models,
machine translation systems, multilingual dictionaries and corpora--focuses on the world's 2 …

Tackling Language Modelling Bias in Support of Linguistic Diversity

G Bella, P Helm, G Koch, F Giunchiglia - The 2024 ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Current AI-based language technologies—language models, machine translation systems,
multilingual dictionaries and corpora—are known to focus on the world's 2–3% most widely …

[PDF][PDF] Linguistic diversity and bias in online dictionaries

G Bella, K Batsuren, T Khishigsuren… - University of Bayreuth …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Traditional bilingual dictionaries, once pivotal translation tools, have been superseded on
the Web by multilingual lexical databases that interconnect the lexicons of hundreds of …