Papers by Yamini Chandrashekar
Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines (2022.acl-demo)
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Gábor Bella, Erdenebileg Byambadorj, Yamini Chandrashekar, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Danish Cheema, Fausto Giunchiglia
| Challenge: | Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) is a large multilingual lexical database with a focus on language diversity and covering over two thousand languages. |
| Approach: | Universal Knowledge Core is a large multilingual lexical database with a focus on language diversity and covering over two thousand languages. |
| Outcome: | the database lets users explore millions of individual words and their meanings, but also phenomena of cross-lingual convergence and divergence, such as shared interlingual meanings and lexicon similarities. |
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. |
A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic (2020.lrec-1)
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Gábor Bella, Fiona McNeill, Rody Gorman, Caoimhin O Donnaile, Kirsty MacDonald, Yamini Chandrashekar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Fausto Giunchiglia
| Challenge: | a new wordnet resource is available for Scottish Gaelic, a minority language spoken by 60,000 speakers . weak online presence of minority languages is a problem due to lack of digital corpora, authors say . |
| Approach: | They propose a new wordnet resource for Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic minority language . the wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and is among the 30 largest in the world . authors hope to contribute to long-term preservation of Scottish Gaels as a living language - offline and on the Web . |
| Outcome: | The new wordnet is for Scottish Gaelic, a minority language spoken by 60,000 speakers . the wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and is among the 30 largest in the world . authors hope it will contribute to the long-term preservation of the language, both offline and on the Web . |
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. |