When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro?: Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection
Aditi Chaudhary, Kayo Yin, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig
Abstract
Learning fine-grained distinctions between vocabulary items is a key challenge in learning a new language. For example, the noun “wall” has different lexical manifestations in Spanish – “pared” refers to an indoor wall while “muro” refers to an outside wall. However, this variety of lexical distinction may not be obvious to non-native learners unless the distinction is explained in such a way. In this work, we present a method for automatically identifying fine-grained lexical distinctions, and extracting rules explaining these distinctions in a human- and machine-readable format. We confirm the quality of these extracted rules in a language learning setup for two languages, Spanish and Greek, where we use the rules to teach non-native speakers when to translate a given ambiguous word into its different possible translations.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.553
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6911–6929
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.553
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.553
- Cite (ACL):
- Aditi Chaudhary, Kayo Yin, Antonios Anastasopoulos, and Graham Neubig. 2021. When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro?: Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 6911–6929, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro?: Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection (Chaudhary et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/2021.emnlp-main.553.pdf
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