Are Crescia and Piadina the Same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or Non-Synonymy between Italian Words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners

Lavinia Nicoleta Aparaschivei; Lionel Remy Nicolas; A Barron-Cedeno

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Are Crescia and Piadina the Same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or Non-Synonymy between Italian Words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners

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Are Crescia and Piadina the Same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or Non-Synonymy between Italian Words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners

Lavinia Nicoleta Aparaschivei, Lionel Remy Nicolas and A Barron-Cedeno

Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CliC-it 2021) (Milan, 29/06/2022 - 01/07/2022)

2021

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https://hdl.handle.net/10863/35766

Abstract

NLP

Crowdsourcing

Language Learning

We introduce a method to generate candidate pairs of related Italian words sharing (or not) synonymous relations from the ConceptNet knowledgebase. The pairs are intended to generate questions for a vocabulary trainer which combines exercises to enhance vocabulary skills with the implicit crowdsourcing of linguistic knowledge about the semantic relations between words. Our method relies on the idea that pairs of synonyms in a language tend to translate to pairs of synonyms in other languages. We generated 85k candidate pairs of Italian synonyms that can be used to produce questions for both teaching (3.8k pairs) and crowdsourcing purposes (80k pairs). Follow-up efforts are however needed in order to generate a complementary set of questions.

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Title: Are Crescia and Piadina the Same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or Non-Synonymy between Italian Words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners
Creators: Lavinia Nicoleta Aparaschivei
Lionel Remy Nicolas
A Barron-Cedeno
Publication Details: Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
Conference: Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CliC-it 2021) (Milan, 29/06/2022 - 01/07/2022)
Number of pages: 7
Identifiers: (EURAC)25983604
991006593297901241
Copyright: This paper and the volume it is included in are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Academic Unit: Institute for Applied Linguistics
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Description coverage: national
Description audience: Scientific
Local Fields: Scientific
Author Names String: Aparaschivei L, Nicolas L, Barron-Cedeno A

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