Papers by Nandu Chandran Nair
Using Linguistic Typology to Enrich Multilingual Lexicons: the Case of Lexical Gaps in Kinship (2022.lrec-1)
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Temuulen Khishigsuren, Gábor Bella, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Nandu Chandran Nair, Amarsanaa Ganbold, Hadi Khalilia, Yamini Chandrashekar, Fausto Giunchiglia
| Challenge: | a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic diversity is proposed . Typology-based approaches are being used to improve cross-lingual NLP tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic diversity based on lexica. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to improve cross-lingual NLP tasks by removing the need for parallel textual corpora or cross-linguistic transfer from high-to-low-resourced languages. |
IndoUKC: A Concept-Centered Indian Multilingual Lexical Resource (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new multilingual lexical database for Indian languages is proposed . the database provides words and crosslingually mapped word meanings specific to Indian languages and cultures. |
| Approach: | They propose to create a multilingual lexical database for Indian languages called IndoUKC . the database is based on existing IndoWordNet resources and is available for browsing . |
| Outcome: | The proposed database is based on the existing IndoWordNet resource and is available for download through the LiveLanguage data catalogue. |