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View SchemaCreating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation
| Authors | Andrew Moore, Paul Rayson, Dawn Archer, Tim Czerniak, Dawn Knight, Daisy Lal, Gearóid Ó Donnchadha, Mícheál Ó Meachair, Scott Piao, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Johanna Vuorinen, Yan Yabo, Xiaobin Yang |
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| ArXiv ID | 2601.09648vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09648 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) has been widely evaluated using the semantic frameworks of WordNet, BabelNet, and the Oxford Dictionary of English. However, for the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) framework, no open extensive evaluation has been performed beyond lexical coverage or single language evaluation. In this work, we perform the largest semantic tagging evaluation of the rule based system that uses the lexical resources in the USAS framework covering five different languages using four existing datasets and one novel Chinese dataset. We create a new silver labelled English dataset, to overcome the lack of manually tagged training data, that we train and evaluate various mono and multilingual neural models in both mono and cross-lingual evaluation setups with comparisons to their rule based counterparts, and show how a rule based system can be enhanced with a neural network model. The resulting neural network models, including the data they were trained on, the Chinese evaluation dataset, and all of the code have been released as open resources.
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"Andrew Moore",
"Paul Rayson",
"Dawn Archer",
"Tim Czerniak",
"Dawn Knight",
"Daisy Lal",
"Gear\u00f3id \u00d3 Donnchadha",
"M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Meachair",
"Scott Piao",
"Elaine U\u00ed Dhonnchadha",
"Johanna Vuorinen",
"Yan Yabo",
"Xiaobin Yang"
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"title": "Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation",
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