arXiv AI By David Basil, Chirooth Girigowda, Bradley Hauer, Sahir Momin, Ning Shi, Grzegorz Kondrak

Generating Concept Lexicalizations via Dictionary-Based Cross-Lingual Sense Projection

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arXiv:2604. 14397v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the task of automatically expanding WordNet-style lexical resources to new languages through sense generation.

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