@inproceedings{mederake-etal-2026-onomasiological,
    title = "Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained {LLM} Classification",
    author = "Mederake, Nathalie  and
      Urbach, Nico  and
      Fischer, Hanna  and
      Lameli, Alfred",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/manual-author-scripts/2026.vardial-1.10/",
    pages = "123--138",
    abstract = "We propose a taxonomy-guided approach to semantic alignment that assigns lexicographic senses to an onomasiological taxonomy derived from the Hallig{--}Wartburg/Post system. Using an LLM under strict taxonomic constraints, short and heterogeneous meaning descriptions are assigned to a common conceptual space. Evaluation against expert annotation shows that run-to-run model agreement (kappa = 0.73) closely matches human agreement (kappa = 0.74), with robustness at coarse taxonomic levels and predictable degradation at finer granularity. A qualitative network analysis demonstrates the resulting potential for cross-dictionary exploration of dialectal variation in semantics."
}