Papers with BabelNet
Sememe Prediction for BabelNet Synsets using Multilingual and Multimodal Information (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing sememe KBs only cover a few languages, which hinders the wide utilization of sememes. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a multilingual sememe KB based on a dictionary called BabelNet . they use multilingual synonyms, multilingual glosses and images to encode sememes . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms previous methods in terms of MAP and F1 scores. |
Enhancing Word Embeddings with Knowledge Extracted from Lexical Resources (2020.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | In this paper, we present an effective method for semantic specialization of word vector representations. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for semantic specialization of word vector representations using BabelNet. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on word similarity and dialog state tracking tasks. |
One event, many representations. Mapping action concepts through visual features. (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a proposed classification of general verbs is characterized by a high ambiguity and high frequency in the use. |
| Approach: | They propose to use IMAGACT visual component as linkage point between resources . they propose automatic linking with BabelNet and manual linking with Praxicon . |
| Outcome: | The proposed solution exploits the IMAGACT visual component as the linkage point among resources. |
Fully-Semantic Parsing and Generation: the BabelNet Meaning Representation (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is the most popular formalism for Semantic Parsing. |
| Approach: | They propose a language-independent representation of meaning using BabelNet and VerbAtlas. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing frameworks thanks to fully-semantic framing, the authors show . the proposed dataset is labeled entirely according to the proposed framework, and is available on github. |
Bridging the Gap Between BabelNet and HowNet: Unsupervised Sense Alignment and Sememe Prediction (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Sememes are the minimum semantic units of natural languages, but their use is limited by a lack of available sememe knowledge bases. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sense alignment to connect BabelNet with HowNet by relaxing constraints until a complete alignment is achieved. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on previous supervised methods by 12% . it is based on interpretable propagation of sememe information between lexical resources . |
BiVert: Bidirectional Vocabulary Evaluation Using Relations for Machine Translation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation (NMT) evaluation is crucial to determine the quality of translations. |
| Approach: | They propose a bidirectional semantic-based evaluation method to assess the sense distance of the translation from the source text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method uses the multilingual encyclopedic dictionary BabelNet . it shows a strong correlation between the evaluation scores and human assessments . |
Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Word Similarity Calculation Using Word Vector Representation from a Knowledge-based Graph (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to determine the word sense have fewer word set constraints than unsupervised methods. |
| Approach: | They propose a new word sense disambiguation method that generates the context of an ambiguous word by using similarities between an amorphous word and words in the input document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the baseline method on the SemEval-13 and SemEx15 datasets and has higher performance than the state-of-the-art unsupervised knowledge-based system. |
Babel-ImageNet: Massively Multilingual Evaluation of Vision-and-Language Representations (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Vision-and-language models with separate encoders for each modality are limited in availability. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual benchmark that offers (partial) translations of ImageNet labels to 100 languages, built without machine translation or manual annotation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models on English and low-resource languages. |
Improving HowNet-Based Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Prior work on unsupervised WSD has leveraged lexical knowledge bases, such as WordNet and BabelNet, but these have proven to be less effective for Chinese. |
| Approach: | They propose a system which combines contextual information from a pretrained neural language model with bilingual information obtained via machine translation and sense translation information from HowNet. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves a state-of-the-art for unsupervised Chinese WSD. |
Improving Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing WSD systems rarely consider multilingual information for word sense disambiguation (WSD). |
| Approach: | They propose a method that leverages multilingual information to improve a base WSD system by generating translations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance of a base WSD system in English and multilingual WSD on several languages. |
SANDWiCH: Semantical Analysis of Neighbours for Disambiguating Words in Context ad Hoc (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that language understanding offered by chat-based Large Language Models is limited and far from human-like performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation using group algebra. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses the performance of current alternatives even in low-resource languages while reducing the parameter count by 72%. |
Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation with Unified Sense Representation (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing researches on word sense disambiguation focus on English only. |
| Approach: | They propose to build knowledge and supervised based multilingual word sense disambiguation systems on a multilingual lexicon describing the same set of concepts across languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can understand the fine-grained semantics of words under specific contexts. |
Translation-based Lexicalization Generation and Lexical Gap Detection: Application to Kinship Terms (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying lexical gaps have been limited . kinship terms are well-suited for investigations into lexicons and lexicals . |
| Approach: | They propose an algorithm to automatically generate concept lexicalizations based on machine translation and hypernymy relations between concepts. |
| Outcome: | Empirical evaluations show that the proposed method is more accurate than BabelNet and ChatGPT. |
Evaluating EcoLexiCAT: a Terminology-Enhanced CAT Tool (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | EcoLexiCAT is a web-based tool for terminology-enhanced translation of environmental texts . most terminological modules in CAT tools do not go beyond a simple glossary of source and target terms . |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate terminology-enhanced translation into a web-based tool . EcoLexiCAT is a terminology-enriched CAT tool for the English-Spanish-English translation . |
| Outcome: | The EcoLexiCAT tool is an open-source version of the CAT tool MateCat . it enriches a source text with information from a multimodal and multilingual terminological knowledge base on the environment . |
Syn2Vec: Synset Colexification Graphs for Lexical Semantic Similarity (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | In this paper we examine patterns of colexification as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization, and compare several approaches to build large scale graphs across 499 world languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use patterns of colexification as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization to build large scale synset graphs across a typologically diverse set of 499 world languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are evaluated against human judgments on a semantic similarity task for nine languages. |
LIdioms: A Multilingual Linked Idioms Data Set (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on linguistic data sets that are bilingual on the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) 1 . |
| Approach: | They describe a multilingual RDF representation of idioms currently containing five languages . they use a model to structure the data and a method to link the data to well-known multilingual data sets such as BabelNet. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model complies with best practices according to Linguistic Linked Open Data Community. |
Massively Multilingual Lexical Specialization of Multilingual Transformers (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing work focused on lexical specialization of monolingual PLMs with immense quantities of monolinguistic constraints, but recent work shows that pretrained language models can be rewired to produce high-quality word representations and perform type-level lexicals. |
| Approach: | They propose to expose massively multilingual transformers to multilingual lexical knowledge at scale using BabelNet as a source of multilingual and cross-lingual type-level lexicon knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that pretrained language models can be rewired to produce high-quality word representations and perform type-level lexical tasks. |
BABELEDITS: A Benchmark and a Modular Approach for Robust Cross-lingual Knowledge Editing of Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for cross-lingual knowledge editing are limited in their effectiveness and robustness. |
| Approach: | They propose a new CKE benchmark that accounts for the rich variety of entity aliases within and across languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is more effective than state-of-the-art methods and robust against model collapse when subjected to multiple edits. |
A Large Multilingual and Multi-domain Dataset for Recommender Systems (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing algorithms for recommending items are limited and focused on specific domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-domain interests dataset to train and test Recommender Systems . the english dataset includes an average of 90 preferences per user on music, books, movies, celebrities, sport, politics . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exploits popular services such as Spotify, Goodreads and others to extract preferences from Twitter messages in Italian and English. |
An Evaluation Benchmark for Testing the Word Sense Disambiguation Capabilities of Machine Translation Systems (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Lexical ambiguity is one of the many challenging linguistic phenomena involved in translation, i.e., translating an ambiguous word with its correct sense. |
| Approach: | They propose to use training data to measure the sense distributions of a machine translation system to measure lexical ambiguity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark builds upon the multilingual sense inventory of BabelNet, the multilinguistic neural parsing pipeline TurkuNLP, and the OPUS collection of translated texts from the web. |
A Short Survey on Sense-Annotated Corpora (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a key task in Natural Language Understanding. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sense-annotated corpora for supervised Word Sense Disambiguation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods have been compared with knowledge-based approaches and have shown to be more efficient when they are available. |
Lexical Resource Mapping via Translations (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a lexical resource associates words with concepts in multiple languages, which makes it difficult to combine information from multiple resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a translation-based approach to mapping lexical resources . they use word-concept pairs to align WordNet/BabelNet to CLICS and OmegaWiki . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy without other sources of knowledge . it can be framed as word sense disambiguation, and it can improve on existing methods . |