CLIX: Cross-Lingual Explanations of Idiomatic Expressions

Gluck, Aaron, von der Wense, Katharina, Pacheco, Maria

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

One of that obtaining explanations of idiomatic expressions the main areas of interest for the proponents of in the learner's first language removes many technology-assisted language learning is vocabulary of the barriers to understanding introduced by traditional expansion, where recent studies have demonstrated definition generation systems. We choose a significant impact in student engagement to focus on idiomatic expressions as they are an and increased vocabulary knowledge (Fisher, 2016; important element of language learning that is particularly Guaqueta and Castro-Gárces, 2018; Tao Hao and challenging for learners and automated Ardasheva, 2021). To support the development systems alike. Consider the utterance, he and I of these technologies, considerable work has been don't see eye to eye on a variety of topics. The idiomatic devoted to the study of automated definition generation expression contained within this sentence (Ni and Wang, 2017; Gadetsky et al., 2018; is not composed of particularly challenging words, Ishiwatari et al., 2019; Bevilacqua et al., 2020).