Towards Automated Lexicography: Generating and Evaluating Definitions for Learner's Dictionaries

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arXiv:2601.01842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dictionary definitions are an essential resource for learning word senses, but manually creating them is costly. We thus study dictionary definition generation (DDG), i.e., the generation of non-contextualized definitions for given headwords. Specifically, we address learner's dictionary definition generation (LDDG), where definitions should be written using simple vocabulary. First, we introduce a reliable evaluation approach for DDG, based on