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على التحويل عبر اللغات من التشريح بالمعنى السياقي
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في هذه الورقة، نقوم بتحليل المدى الذي يتطلع إليه المعنى السياقي، أي شعور بمعنى تم حسابه على أساس مدمج الكلمات السياقية، قابلة للتحويل عبر اللغات. في هذه الغاية، جمعنا معيارا موحدا عبر اللغات ل Disambiguation Sense.بعد ذلك نقترح استراتيجيتين بسيطة لنقل المعرفة الخاصة بالمعنى بالمعنى بين اللغات واختبرها على النتائج المعدية-portform unolingual تمثيلات mernessnfrom البيانات الخاصة باللغة الحالية.
In this paper we analyze the extent to which contextualized sense embeddings, i.e., sense embeddings that are computed based on contextualized word embeddings, are transferable across languages.To this end, we compiled a unified cross-lingual benchmark for Word Sense Disambiguation. We then propose two simple strategies to transfer sense-specific knowledge across languages and test them on the benchmark.Experimental results show that this contextualized knowledge can be effectively transferred to similar languages through pre-trained multilingual language models, to the extent that they can out-perform monolingual representations learnednfrom existing language-specific data.
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