# Towards a Transformer-Based Reverse Dictionary Model for Quality Estimation of Definitions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02985 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.02985/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 19 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Nov 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.01108/) (2019)
- [XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.08237/) (2019)
- [Learning to Understand Phrases by Embedding the Dictionary](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.00548/) (2015)
- [Multi-channel Reverse Dictionary Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.08441/) (2019)
- [Mapping Text to Knowledge Graph Entities using Multi-Sense LSTMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.07724/) (2018)
- [BERT for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Reverse Dictionary](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.14790/) (2020)
- [Implementing a Reverse Dictionary, based on word definitions, using a Node-Graph Architecture](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.00025/) (2016)
- [A Unified Model for Reverse Dictionary and Definition Modelling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.04602/) (2022)
- [WordAlchemy: A transformer-based Reverse Dictionary](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.10181/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In the last years, several variants of transformers have emerged. In this paper, we compare different transformer-based models for solving the reverse dictionary task and explore their use in the context of a serious game called The Dictionary Game.