J\'ader Martins Camboim de S\'a
2026
SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations
Pierluigi Cassotti | Naomi Baes | Stefano De Pascale | J\'ader Martins Camboim de S\'a | Francesco Periti | Nick Haslam | Dirk Geeraerts | Nina Tahmasebi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Pierluigi Cassotti | Naomi Baes | Stefano De Pascale | J\'ader Martins Camboim de S\'a | Francesco Periti | Nick Haslam | Dirk Geeraerts | Nina Tahmasebi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Polysemy enables a single word to convey multiple related meanings, reflecting the conceptual and emotional aspects of the evolution of the senses. We introduce the first sense-level benchmark, SenseRel, for modeling semantic relations between word senses, uniting denotational and connotational aspects of meaning. SenseRel distinguishes denotational relations, such as generalization or metaphor, as well as two connotational dimensions: valence and arousal. We evaluate large language models (LLMs), GPT-4o, Llama 3.1, and DeepSeek, in zero-shot and fine-tuned settings. Results show that GPT-4o best aligns with human affective judgments, while a fine-tuned RoBERTa model excels at classifying denotational relations.