MultiLexBATS: multilingual dataset of lexical semantic relations

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2024

Authors

Gromann, Dagmar (Author) Other; Silvano, Maria da Purificação (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

Pages: 11783-11793

Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

Torino, 2024

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Abstract (EN): Understanding the relation between the meanings of words is an important part of comprehending natural language. Prior work has either focused on analysing lexical semantic relations in word embeddings or probing pretrained language models (PLMs), with some exceptions. Given the rarity of highly multilingual benchmarks, it is unclear to what extent PLMs capture relational knowledge and are able to transfer it across languages. To start addressing this question, we propose MultiLexBATS, a multilingual parallel dataset of lexical semantic relations adapted from BATS in 15 languages including low-resource languages, such as Bambara, Lithuanian, and Albanian. As experiment on cross-lingual transfer of relational knowledge, we test the PLMs’ ability to (1) capture analogies across languages, and (2) predict translation targets. We find considerable differences across relation types and languages with a clear preference for hypernymy and antonymy as well as romance languages.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Texto elaborado em colaboração com 31 autores: Dagmar Gromann, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Lucia Pitarch, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jordi Bernad, Eliot Bytyçi, Chiara Cantone, Sara Carvalho, Francesca Frontini, Radovan Garabik, Jorge Gracia, Letizia Granata, Fahad Khan, Timotej Knez, Penny Labropoulou, Chaya Liebeskind, Maria Pia di Buono, Ana Ostro¨ki Anić , Sigita Rackevičienė, Ricardo Rodrigues, Gilles Sérasset, Linas Selmistraitis, Mahammadou Sidibé, Purificação Silvano, Blerina Spahiu, Enriketa Sogutlu, Ranka Stanković, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Ole¨kevičienė, Slavko Zitnik, Katerina Zdravkova