Coarse-Grained Sense Inventories Based on Semantic Matching between English Dictionaries

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06386v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:08:58 GMT
• Title: Coarse-Grained Sense Inventories Based on Semantic Matching between English Dictionaries
• Authors: Masato Kikuchi, Masatsugu Ono, Toshioki Soga, Tetsu Tanabe, Tadachika Ozono,
• Abstract summary: We semantically match sense definitions from Cambridge dictionaries and WordNet and develop new coarse-grained sense inventories. The advantages of the proposed inventories include their low dependency on large-scale resources, better aggregation of closely related senses, CEFR-level assignments, and ease of expansion and improvement.
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• Abstract: WordNet is one of the largest handcrafted concept dictionaries visualizing word connections through semantic relationships. It is widely used as a word sense inventory in natural language processing tasks. However, WordNet's fine-grained senses have been criticized for limiting its usability. In this paper, we semantically match sense definitions from Cambridge dictionaries and WordNet and develop new coarse-grained sense inventories. We verify the effectiveness of our inventories by comparing their semantic coherences with that of Coarse Sense Inventory. The advantages of the proposed inventories include their low dependency on large-scale resources, better aggregation of closely related senses, CEFR-level assignments, and ease of expansion and improvement.

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