We present a dataset of word usage graphs (WUGs), where the existing WUGs for multiple languages are enriched with cluster labels functioning as sense definitions. They are generated from scratch by fine-tuned encoder-decoder language models. The conducted human evaluation has shown that these definitions match the existing clusters in WUGs better than the definitions chosen from WordNet by two baseline systems. At the same time, the method is straightforward to use and easy to extend to new languages. The resulting enriched datasets can be extremely helpful for moving on to explainable semantic change modeling.
@article{arxiv.2403.18024,
title = {Enriching Word Usage Graphs with Cluster Definitions},
author = {Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov and Nikolay Arefyev and Dominik Schlechtweg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18024},
year = {2024}
}