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Toward the Automatic Detection of Word Meaning Negotiation Indicators in Conversation

Aina Garí Soler,Matthieu Labeau,Chloé Clavel

Published 2025 in Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Word Meaning Negotiations (WMN) are sequences in conversation where speakers collectively discuss and shape word meaning. These exchanges can provide insight into conversational dynamics and word-related misunder-standings, but they are hard to find in corpora. In order to facilitate data collection and speed up the WMN annotation process, we introduce the task of detecting WMN indicators – utterances where a speaker signals the need to clarify or challenge word meaning. We train a wide range of models and reveal the difficulty of the task. Our models have better precision than previous regular-expression based approaches and show some generalization abilities, but have moderate recall. However, this constitutes a promising first step toward an iterative process for obtaining more data.

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