Euralex 2024

Session

Keynotes

8 Oct 2024, 15:00

Ragusa Hall (Hotel Croatia)

51. Case Studies in the Successes and Limits of Frame Semantics in Practical Lexicography

Kory Stamper

08/10/2024, 15:00

Practical, commercial lexicography in the United States, in particular, is a field that relies heavily on tradition, and it has been loath to abandon the tried-andtrue methods of corpus creation, analysis, and defining that have been established 16since the time of Murray. Yet frame semantics has provided a broader lens through which the practical lexicographer can view meaning, and its...

2. Lexical Semantics, Lexicography and LLMs

Dirk Geeraerts

09/10/2024, 11:00

In an attempt to provide some background for the overall theme of the Euralex 21 conference, the talk explores the position of LLMs in the field of lexical studies from two angles, a lexicographic and a theoretical linguistic one. From a theoretical perspective, LLMs currently constitute the epitome of distributional semantics, and distributional semantics (for the reasons that I specified in...

52. You Talk Funny! One Day Me Talk Funny Too: Investigating the Capacity of Large Language Models for Humour

Tony Veale

10/10/2024, 11:00

Recent developments in the scaling and training of large language models (LLMs) have led to a dramatic change in how the public views Artificial Intelligence. No longer the vaguely aspirational preserve of science fiction stories, AI is now expected to work, and not just in the laboratory but in a wide range of consumer products. Yet as AI outperforms people on tasks that were once considered...

55. Possible Futures for Semantic Lexical Resources in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Tiago Torrent

11/10/2024, 11:30

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been dominating the discussion fora on language technology for at least the past seven years. As much as LLMs have spurred progress in NLP, recent research has been demonstrating their performance seems to reach a limit which cannot be overcome with more training data. Therefore, hybrid approaches combining LLMs and Language Resources have been gaining...

56. Croatian Web Dictionary – MREŽNIK

Lana Hudeček

12/10/2024, 11:30

From 2017 until 2021, the Croatian Web Dictionary – Mrežnik was a project of the Croatian Science Foundation; from 2022 until now, it has been an internal project of the Institute for the Croatian Language, and from 2024, it will be funded by the EU program NextGeneration EU. The project goals are to compile an e-dictionary of the Croatian language that is online, free, corpusbased,...