Semeval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE--Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings

T Mickus, K Van Deemter, M Constant… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Word embeddings have advanced the state of the art in NLP across numerous tasks.
Understanding the contents of dense neural representations is of utmost interest to the …

Reverse Dictionary Formation: State of the Art and Future Directions

B Siddique, MM Sufyan Beg - SN Computer Science, 2023 - Springer
In view of the limitation of the forward dictionaries to attend to the needs specific to the
language producers, an alternate resource in the form of 'Reverse Dictionary'needs to be …

WordAlchemy: a transformer-based reverse dictionary

SB Mane, HN Patil, KB Madaswar… - 2022 2nd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reverse dictionary takes a target word's description as input and returns the words that fit
the description. Reverse Dictionaries are useful for new language learners, anomia patients …

RDMTL: Reverse dictionary model based on multitask learning

S Tian, S Huang, R Li, C Wei, Y Liu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
A reverse dictionary is a task of finding appropriate words based on given definitions.
Existing studies struggle to capture the subtle differences between words with similar …

RDMIF: Reverse dictionary model based on multi-modal information fusion

S Tian, S Huang, R Li, C Wei - Neurocomputing, 2025 - Elsevier
In reverse dictionary (RD) research, the goal is to construct the components of a target word
vector through the parsing of human-comprehensible definitions. This process emulates the …

Multi-language reverse dictionary model based on improved mBERT

Q Han, Y Liu - Proceedings of the ACM Turing Award Celebration …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A reverse dictionary generates a ranked list of vocabulary words that correspond to the
definition of a given input description. Although reverse dictionary has widely practical …

On the Tip of the Tongue: Analyzing Conceptual Representation in Large Language Models with Reverse-Dictionary Probe

N Xu, Q Zhang, M Zhang, P Qian, X Huang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Probing and enhancing large language models' reasoning capacity remains a crucial open
question. Here we re-purpose the reverse dictionary task as a case study to probe LLMs' …

Character-based Thai word segmentation with multiple attentions

T Chay-intr, H Kamigaito, M Okumura - Journal of Natural Language …, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Character-based word segmentation models have been extensively applied to Asian
languages, including Thai, owing to their promising performance. These models estimate …

Adjective phrases in PNL and its application to reverse dictionary

B Siddique, MMS Beg - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the large information content of adjectives in natural language-based data, we
have dealt with the subject of adjective phrases in the paradigm of PNL. We have proposed …

Towards a Transformer-Based Reverse Dictionary Model for Quality Estimation of Definitions (Student Abstract)

J Guité-Vinet, AB Massé, F Sadat - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Towards a Transformer-Based Reverse Dictionary Model for Quality Estimation of Definitions
(Student Abstract) Page 1 Towards a Transformer-Based Reverse Dictionary Model for …