4 papers
CALE : Concept-Aligned Embeddings for Both Within-Lemma and Inter-Lemma Sense Differentiation
Bastien Liétard, Gabriel Loiseau
Lexical semantics is concerned with both the multiple senses a word can adopt in different contexts, and the semantic relations that exist between meanings of different words. To i…
To Word Senses and Beyond: Inducing Concepts with Contextualized Language Models
Bastien Liétard, Pascal Denis, Mikaela Keller
Polysemy and synonymy are two crucial interrelated facets of lexical ambiguity. While both phenomena are widely documented in lexical resources and have been studied extensively in…
A Tale of Two Laws of Semantic Change: Predicting Synonym Changes with Distributional Semantic Models
Bastien Liétard, Mikaela Keller, Pascal Denis
Lexical Semantic Change is the study of how the meaning of words evolves through time. Another related question is whether and how lexical relations over pairs of words, such as sy…
Do Language Models Know the Way to Rome?
Bastien Liétard, Mostafa Abdou, Anders Søgaard
The global geometry of language models is important for a range of applications, but language model probes tend to evaluate rather local relations, for which ground truths are easi…