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Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We propose a taxonomy-guided approach to semantic alignment that assigns lexicographic senses to an onomasiological taxonomy derived from the Hallig-Wartburg/Post system.Using an LLM under strict taxonomic constraints, short and heterogeneous meaning descriptions are assigned to a common conceptual space.Evaluation against expert annotation shows that run-to-run model agreement (κ = 0.73) closely matches human agreement (κ = 0.74), with robustness at coarse taxonomic levels and predictable degradation at finer granularity.A qualitative network analysis demonstrates the resulting potential for cross-dictionary exploration of dialectal variation in semantics.

Source: Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.vardial-1.10

Authors: Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, Alfred Lameli

Institution: Philipps University of Marburg

Topic: Lexicography and Language Studies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz

OpenAlex ID: W7140135713

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