To process language in a way that is compatible with human expectations in a
communicative interaction, we need computational representations of lexical properties that …

In natural language, multiple meanings often share a single word form, a phenomenon
known as colexification. Some sets of meanings are more frequently colexified across …

Theories of embodied cognition postulate that language processing activates similar
sensory-motor structures as when interacting with the environment. Only little is known about …

Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a
language. Cross‐linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be largely predictable …

This article introduces embComp, a novel approach for comparing two embeddings that
capture the similarity between objects, such as word and document embeddings. We survey …

This paper introduces a novel collection of word embeddings, numerical representations of
lexical semantics, in 55 languages, trained on a large corpus of pseudo-conversational …

Multilingual representations have mostly been evaluated based on their performance on
specific tasks. In this article, we look beyond engineering goals and analyze the relations …

Much work in cross-lingual transfer learning explored how to select better transfer
languages for multilingual tasks, primarily focusing on typological and genealogical …

A growing body of research shows that both signed and spoken languages display regular
patterns of iconicity in their vocabularies. We compared iconicity in the lexicons of American …

Many language learning tasks require learners to infer correspondences between data in
two modalities. Often, these alignments are many-to-many and context-sensitive. For …