@inproceedings{alheraki-meshoul-2024-baleegh,
    title = "Baleegh at {KSAA}-{CAD} 2024: Towards Enhancing {A}rabic Reverse Dictionaries",
    author = "Alheraki, Mais  and
      Meshoul, Souham",
    editor = "Habash, Nizar  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Eskander, Ramy  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      Abu Farha, Ibrahim  and
      Abdelali, Ahmed  and
      Touileb, Samia  and
      Hamed, Injy  and
      Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Alhafni, Bashar  and
      Antoun, Wissam  and
      Khalifa, Salam  and
      Haddad, Hatem  and
      Zitouni, Imed  and
      AlKhamissi, Badr  and
      Almatham, Rawan  and
      Mrini, Khalil",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2024.arabicnlp-1.78/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.78",
    pages = "704--708",
    abstract = "The domain of reverse dictionaries (RDs), while advancing in languages like English and Chinese, remains underdeveloped for Arabic. This study attempts to explore a data-driven approach to enhance word retrieval processes in Arabic RDs. The research focuses on the ArabicNLP 2024 Shared Task, named KSAA-CAD, which provides a dictionary dataset of 39,214 word-gloss pairs, each with a corresponding target word embedding. The proposed solution aims to surpass the baseline performance by employing SOTA deep learning models and innovative data expansion techniques. The methodology involves enriching the dataset with contextually relevant examples, training a T5 model to align the words to their glosses in the space, and evaluating the results on the shared task metrics. We find that our model is closely aligned with the baseline performance on bertseg and bertmsa targets, however does not perform well on electra target, suggesting the need for further exploration."
}