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Conditional Generators of Words Definitions

arXiv 1806.10090 ↗First posted 26 Jun 2018cs.CLcited by 35

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We explore recently introduced definition modeling technique that provided the tool for evaluation of different distributed vector representations of words through modeling dictionary definitions of words. In this work, we study the problem of word ambiguities in definition modeling and propose a possible solution by employing latent variable modeling and soft attention mechanisms. Our quantitative and qualitative evaluation and analysis of the model shows that taking into account words ambiguity and polysemy leads to performance improvement.

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  1. 2023Interpretable Word Sense Representations via Definition Generation: The Case of Semantic Change Analysiscited by 19
  2. 2022Multitasking Framework for Unsupervised Simple Definition Generationcited by 18
  3. 2022Semeval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE -- Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddingscited by 18
  4. 2021Understanding Jargon: Combining Extraction and Generation for Definition Modelingcited by 15
  5. 2023Assisting Language Learners: Automated Trans-Lingual Definition Generation via Contrastive Prompt Learningcited by 13
  6. 2022Learning Disentangled Representations for Natural Language Definitionscited by 12
  7. 2022Fine-grained Contrastive Learning for Definition Generationcited by 10
  8. 2024Using Synchronic Definitions and Semantic Relations to Classify Semantic Change Typescited by 7
  9. 2024Definition generation for lexical semantic change detectioncited by 7
  10. 2022A Unified Model for Reverse Dictionary and Definition Modellingcited by 5
  11. 2023Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Informationcited by 5
  12. 2023Multi-Relational Hyperbolic Word Embeddings from Natural Language Definitionscited by 4
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  1. 2023"Definition Modeling: To model definitions." Generating Definitions With Little to No Semanticscited by 4
  2. 2024Low-Cost Generation and Evaluation of Dictionary Example Sentencescited by 4
  3. 2025Rapid Word Learning Through Meta In-Context Learningcited by 4
  4. 2022BLCU-ICALL at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Cross-Attention Multitasking Framework for Definition Modelingcited by 3
  5. 2024AXOLOTL'24 Shared Task on Multilingual Explainable Semantic Change Modelingcited by 3
  6. 2022VER: Unifying Verbalizing Entities and Relationscited by 2
  7. 2024DORE: A Dataset For Portuguese Definition Generationcited by 2
  8. 2025Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitionscited by 2
  9. 2022IRB-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Exploring the Relationship Between Words and Their Semantic Representationscited by 1
  10. 2022COMPILING: A Benchmark Dataset for Chinese Complexity Controllable Definition Generationcited by 1
  11. 2023Exploiting Correlations Between Contexts and Definitions with Multiple Definition Modelingcited by 1
  12. 2023Vec2Gloss: definition modeling leveraging contextualized vectors with Wordnet glosscited by 1
  13. 20233D-EX : A Unified Dataset of Definitions and Dictionary Examplescited by 1
  14. 2024Enriching Word Usage Graphs with Cluster Definitionscited by 1
  15. 2025CLIX: Cross-Lingual Explanations of Idiomatic Expressionscited by 1
  16. 2025Multilingual Definition Modelingcited by 1
  17. 2022LitMind Dictionary: An Open-Source Online Dictionarycited by 0
  18. 2023WIKITIDE: A Wikipedia-Based Timestamped Definition Pairs Datasetcited by 0
  19. 2025Adapting Definition Modeling for New Languages: A Case Study on Belarusiancited by 0
  20. 2026Towards Automated Lexicography: Generating and Evaluating Definitions for Learner's Dictionariescited by 0
  21. 2026Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotationcited by 0
  22. 2026LM-Lexicon: Improving Definition Modeling via Harmonizing Semantic Expertscited by 0
  23. 2026SemBench: A Universal Semantic Framework for LLM Evaluationcited by 0