PunGraph is a retrieval‑enhanced knowledge‑graph framework designed to improve pun understanding by combining phonetic and semantic information. It builds a phonetic‑semantic lexical graph using the Unisyn phonetic dictionary, IPA and G2P representations, and WordNet definitions, and uses this graph to retrieve candidate words or senses that constrain large language model reasoning. The authors also introduce WebPun, a new dataset of 5,730 annotated heterographic and homographic puns, and demonstrate that PunGraph consistently boosts the performance of small‑scale LLMs on SemEval‑2017 and WebPun, achieving results competitive with strong proprietary models.
arXiv:2507. 06506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating wordplay across languages presents unique challenges that have long confounded both professional human translators and machine translation systems.
arXiv:2606. 29180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A Knowledge Graph (KG) represents facts as structured triples and is widely used to organize relational knowledge across diverse domains.
arXiv:2609.26610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their outstanding performance on many NLP tasks, LLMs face serious challenges related to semantic abstraction. In this study, we are interested...
arXiv:2511. 07457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in modeling sequential textual data and generalizing across diverse tasks.
arXiv:2510. 09711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC), offering strong reasoning and generalization capabilities beyond traditional embedding-based approaches.
arXiv:2606. 00610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become an essential method for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging external knowledge.
arXiv:2609.23191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech-text space alignment is a multimodal representation learning method consisting to map different speech and text into a shared representation spa...
arXiv:2606. 14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language modeling requires not only extending context windows but maintaining coherent understanding of entity states and relationships across thousands of tokens -- a challenge that semantic similarity alone cannot address.
arXiv:2608. 07530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SHACL is a core technology for validating the conformance of RDF knowledge graphs (KGs).
arXiv:2603. 26292v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Syllable-level units offer compact and linguistically meaningful representations for spoken language modeling and unsupervised word discovery, but research on syllabification remains fragmented across disparate implementations, datasets, and evaluation protocols.
The paper investigates how semantic distance and ambiguity contribute to joke humor by revisiting and extending metrics from prior work. It introduces a new symmetry metric—measuring how close the ambiguous element Z is to both X and Y—and evaluates it using two embedding models on three joke datasets, including expanded versions with paired ambiguous sentences. Although models based on these metrics performed poorly in predicting humor ratings, the symmetry metric consistently correlated with higher-rated jokes, hinting it captures a key, though not sole, property of humor.
The paper introduces AVA, a framework that tests whether general NLP embeddings can differentiate logic-sensitive relational semantics in ontologies and knowledge graphs. AVA uses 171,007 contrastive triplets from 163 ontologies, each containing an ontology statement, a paraphrase, and a hard negative with contradictory meaning. Evaluation of over 25 embedding models shows significant limitations, with the best model achieving only 0.739 triplet accuracy and 0.135 for hard negatives; fine‑tuning helps but does not transfer well to downstream Semantic Web tasks.