S\~onajaht: Definition Embeddings and Semantic Search for Reverse Dictionary Creation

arXiv:2404.19430v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present an information retrieval based reverse dictionary system using modern pre-trained language models and approximate nearest neighbors search algorithms. The proposed approach is applied to an existing Estonian language lexicon resource, S\~onaveeb (word web), with the purpose of enhancing and enriching it by introducing cross-lingual reverse dictionary functionality powered by semantic search.
The performance of the system is evaluated using both an existing labeled English dataset of words and definitions that is extended to …

abstract algorithms arxiv cs.cl definition dictionary embeddings information language language models modern neighbors retrieval search search algorithms semantic type web word