Papers by Dirk Geeraerts
SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations (2026.acl-long)
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Pierluigi Cassotti, Naomi Baes, Stefano De Pascale, Jáder Martins Camboim de Sá, Francesco Periti, Nick Haslam, Dirk Geeraerts, Nina Tahmasebi
| Challenge: | Polysemy enables a single word to convey multiple related meanings . a word's sense is extended to new contexts and concepts, a process called semantic change is gradual . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for modeling semantic relations between word senses . they use a model that distinguishes denotational and connotationally related aspects of meaning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is able to distinguish between denotational and connotationalist aspects of meaning . it is compared with models with GPT-4o, Llama 3.1, and DeepSeek . |