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Using Linguistic Typology to Enrich Multilingual Lexicons: the Case of Lexical Gaps in Kinship

arXiv 2204.05049 ↗First posted 11 Apr 2022cs.CLcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic diversity, based on knowledge from the field of lexical typology. We capture the phenomenon of diversity through the notions of lexical gap and language-specific word and use a systematic method to infer gaps semi-automatically on a large scale. As a first result obtained for the domain of kinship terminology, known to be very diverse throughout the world, we publish a lexico-semantic resource consisting of 198 domain concepts, 1,911 words, and 37,370 gaps covering 699 languages. We see potential in the use of resources such as ours for the improvement of a variety of cross-lingual NLP tasks, which we demonstrate through a downstream application for the evaluation of machine translation systems.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 1; 2023: 4; 2024: 1; 2025: 0; 2026: 3.

9 papers.

  1. 2022State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: A taxonomy and reviewcited by 97
  2. 2023Towards Bridging the Digital Language Dividecited by 7
  3. 2023Representing Interlingual Meaning in Lexical Databasescited by 4
  4. 2023Diversity and Language Technology: How Techno-Linguistic Bias Can Cause Epistemic Injusticecited by 4
  5. 2023Lexical Diversity in Kinship Across Languages and Dialectscited by 4
  6. 2024Crowdsourcing Lexical Diversitycited by 1
  7. 2026Discovering Lexical Gaps Using Embeddings from Multilingual LLMscited by 0
  8. 2026Plurification in/of language technology -- The integration of culture in next-generation AIcited by 0
  9. 2026Recognized but Not Produced: A Generation Benchmark for Culturally Specific Kinship Termscited by 0