Reverse Dictionary

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• LingJing at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Multi-task Self-supervised Pre-training for Multilingual Reverse Dictionary
  1 Jul 2022 2 repositories listed
  This paper introduces the approach of Team LingJing’s experiments on SemEval-2022 Task 1 Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings (CODWOE).
• GEAR: A Simple GENERATE, EMBED, AVERAGE AND RANK Approach for Unsupervised Reverse Dictionary
  9 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Reverse Dictionary (RD) is the task of obtaining the most relevant word or set of words given a textual description or dictionary definition.
• Sõnajaht: Definition Embeddings and Semantic Search for Reverse Dictionary Creation
  30 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  We present an information retrieval based reverse dictionary system using modern pre-trained language models and approximate nearest neighbors search algorithms.
• On the Tip of the Tongue: Analyzing Conceptual Representation in Large Language Models with Reverse-Dictionary Probe
  22 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Here we re-purpose the reverse dictionary task as a case study to probe LLMs' capacity for conceptual inference.
• Edinburgh at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Jointly Fishing for Word Embeddings and Definitions
  1 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  This paper presents a winning submission to the SemEval 2022 Task 1 on two sub-tasks: reverse dictionary and definition modelling.
• BL.Research at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Deep networks for Reverse Dictionary using embeddings and LSTM autoencoders
  1 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  This paper describes our two deep learning systems that competed at SemEval-2022 Task 1 “CODWOE: Comparing Dictionaries and WOrd Embeddings”.
• JSI at SemEval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE - Reverse Dictionary: Monolingual and cross-lingual approaches
  1 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  The reverse dictionary task is a sequence-to-vector task in which a gloss is provided as input, and the output must be a semantically matching word vector.
• IRB-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Exploring the Relationship Between Words and Their Semantic Representations
  13 May 2022 1 repository listed
  We give a detailed overview of the systems that we designed for Definition Modeling and Reverse Dictionary tasks, and that achieved top scores on SemEval-2022 CODWOE challenge in several subtasks.
• A Unified Model for Reverse Dictionary and Definition Modelling
  9 May 2022 1 repository listed
  We build a dual-way neural dictionary to retrieve words given definitions, and produce definitions for queried words.
• AmbiPun: Generating Humorous Puns with Ambiguous Context
  4 May 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective way to generate pun sentences that does not require any training on existing puns.
• PREDICT: Persian Reverse Dictionary
  1 May 2021 1 repository listed
  Finding the appropriate words to convey concepts (i.
• WantWords: An Open-source Online Reverse Dictionary System
  1 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  A reverse dictionary takes descriptions of words as input and outputs words semantically matching the input descriptions.
• BERT for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Reverse Dictionary
  30 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  Reverse dictionary is the task to find the proper target word given the word description.
• Multi-channel Reverse Dictionary Model
  18 Dec 2019 1 repository listed
  A reverse dictionary takes the description of a target word as input and outputs the target word together with other words that match the description.
• Learning to Represent Bilingual Dictionaries
  10 Aug 2018 1 repository listed
  Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages.
• Learning sentence embeddings using Recursive Networks
  22 May 2018 1 repository listed
  Learning sentence vectors that generalise well is a challenging task.
• Implementing a Reverse Dictionary, based on word definitions, using a Node-Graph Architecture
  31 May 2016 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we outline an approach to build graph-based reverse dictionaries using word definitions.