KSAA-RD Shared Task: Arabic Reverse Dictionary
Rawan N. Al-Matham, Waad Thuwaini Alshammari, Abdulrahman Alosaimy, Sarah Omar Alhumoud, Asma Ali Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Halah Munif Alharbi, Abdullah Alaifi · 2023
This paper outlines the first KSAA-RD shared task, which aims to develop a Reverse Dictionary (RD) system for the Arabic language.RDs allow users to find words based on their meanings or definition.This shared task, KSAA-RD, includes two subtasks: Arabic RD and cross-lingual reverse dictionaries (CLRD).Given a definition (referred to as a "gloss") in either Arabic or English, the teams compete to find the most similar word embeddings of their corresponding word.The winning team achieved 24.20 and 12.70 for RD and CLRD, respectively in terms of rank metric.In this paper, we describe the methods employed by the participating teams and offer an outlook for KSAA-RD.