arXiv:2607.09576cs.CLcs.AI2026-07

用概念网络解析八种语言的习语,发现跨语言习语按认知模式聚类。

Conceptual Networks for Cross-Linguistic Idiomatic Expressions: A Feature-Based Graph Approach

  • 基于认知语言学特征构建跨语言习语概念图
  • 习语按概念框架而非语言分组,与理论预测一致
  • 可解释性强,适合语言学与NLP研究者使用

本文提出一种可解释的网络化框架,用于表示八种类型差异显著语言中的160个惯用表达(绝大多数为习语)。每个表达标注了来自认知语言学理论的二元概念特征(如包含、隐藏、情感、社会等),并通过成对Jaccard相似度构建加权图。社区检测显示,习语按概念模式聚类而非按语言,符合认知语言学预测。该概念网络捕捉到分布嵌入中未体现的独特语义信息,可通过大模型自动标注扩展,提升下游习语识别性能,并在引入语料频率后仍保持稳健。跨语言迁移实验表明,仅凭概念相近性即可识别五种语言家族间的可接受翻译对应项,显著优于基于嵌入的基线方法。消融实验证明,概念框架、角色和极性三个维度均非冗余贡献于网络结构与识别性能,且图衍生信号(如社区归属、邻近相似性)尤为关键。该框架提供了一种兼具理论基础与实用价值的跨语言习语语义表示。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We present an interpretable network-based framework for representing idiomatic and figurative meaning across eight typologically diverse languages, totaling 160 conventional expressions, the large majority of which are idiomatic. Each expression is annotated with binary conceptual features (containment, concealment, emotional, social, etc.) derived from cognitive-linguistic theory, and pairwise Jaccard similarities define a weighted graph. Community detection reveals that idioms cluster by conceptual schema rather than by language, producing a structure consistent with cognitive-linguistic predictions. The conceptual network captures unique semantic information not present in distributional embeddings, can be scaled via automatic annotation with LLMs, improves downstream idiom detection, and remains robust when enriched with corpus frequencies. Cross-lingual transfer experiments show that conceptual proximity alone can identify acceptable translation equivalents across five language families, with substantial gains over embedding-based baselines. Ablation studies demonstrate that all three feature dimensions -- schemas, roles, and valence -- contribute non-redundantly to both the network's organizational properties and its performance on idiom detection, and that specific graph-derived signals (community membership, neighbor similarity) are particularly informative. The framework offers an interpretable, cross-linguistically stable representation of idiomatic meaning, combining theoretical grounding with practical utility.

习语理解概念网络跨语言可解释性

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