Abstract
Systematic polysemy is a well-known linguistic phenomenon where a group of lemmas follow the same polysemy pattern. However, when compiling a lexical resource like a wordnet, a problem arises regarding when to underspecify the two (or more) meanings by one (complex) sense and when to systematically split into separate senses. In this work, we present an extensive analysis of the systematic polysemy patterns in Danish, and in our preliminary study, we examine a subset of these with experiments on human intuition and contextual embeddings. The aim of this preparatory work is to enable future guidelines for each polysemy type. In the future, we hope to expand this approach and thereby hopefully obtain a sense inventory which is distributionally verified and thereby more suitable for NLP.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.gwc-1.14
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference
- Month:
- January
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country
- Editors:
- German Rigau, Francis Bond, Alexandre Rademaker
- Venue:
- GWC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Global Wordnet Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 117–126
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.gwc-1.14
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nathalie Sørensen, Sanni Nimb, and Bolette Pedersen. 2023. How do We Treat Systematic Polysemy in Wordnets and Similar Resources? – Using Human Intuition and Contextualized Embeddings as Guidance. In Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 117–126, University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country. Global Wordnet Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- How do We Treat Systematic Polysemy in Wordnets and Similar Resources? – Using Human Intuition and Contextualized Embeddings as Guidance (Sørensen et al., GWC 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2023.gwc-1.14.pdf