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Detection of Non-recorded Word Senses in English and Swedish

Number of pages18
Publication date2024-12-12
First online date2024-03-04
Abstract

This study addresses the task of Unknown Sense Detection in English and Swedish. The primary objective of this task is to determine whether the meaning of a particular word usage is documented in a dictionary or not. For this purpose, sense entries are compared with word usages from modern and historical corpora using a pre-trained Word-in-Context embedder that allows us to model this task in a few-shot scenario. Additionally, we use human annotations to adapt and evaluate our models. Compared to a random sample from a corpus, our model is able to considerably increase the detected number of word usages with non-recorded senses.

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LAUTENSCHLAGER, Jonathan et al. Detection of Non-recorded Word Senses in English and Swedish. 2024, p. 18.
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