Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons,
diversity is pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and
untranslatability. However, in computational resources, such as multilingual
lexical databases, diversity is hardly ever represented. In this paper, we
introduce a method to enrich computational lexicons with content relating to
linguistic diversity. The method is verified through two large-scale case
studies on kinship terminology, a domain known to be diverse across languages
and cultures: one case study deals with seven Arabic dialects, while the other
one with three Indonesian languages. Our results, made available as browseable
and downloadable computational resources, extend prior linguistics research on
kinship terminology, and provide insight into the extent of diversity even
within linguistically and culturally close communities.

通过两个大规模案例研究验证了一种方法，用于丰富计算词典中与语言多样性相关的内容。这种方法通过研究亲属称谓的领域，在七个阿拉伯方言和三种印度尼西亚语言中证实了多样性的存在。结果为丰富之前对亲属称谓的语言学研究提供了扩展，并揭示了即使在语言和文化上相近的社区内也存在着多样性的程度。

跨语言和方言中的亲属词汇多样性

Lexical Diversity in Kinship Across Languages and Dialects

In today's multilingual lexical databases, the majority of the world's
languages are under-represented. Beyond a mere issue of resource
incompleteness, we show that existing lexical databases have structural
limitations that result in a reduced expressivity on culturally-specific words
and in mapping them across languages. In particular, the lexical meaning space
of dominant languages, such as English, is represented more accurately while
linguistically or culturally diverse languages are mapped in an approximate
manner. Our paper assesses state-of-the-art multilingual lexical databases and
evaluates their strengths and limitations with respect to their expressivity on
lexical phenomena of linguistic diversity.

在多语言词汇数据库中，主要的世界语言表达不完整，数据结构的限制导致文化特定单词的表达能力降低，尤其是英语这样的主导语言以更准确的方式表示词汇意义空间，而语言或文化多样性的语言以近似的方式映射。本文评估了最先进的多语言词汇数据库，并评估其在语言多样性的词汇现象上的表达能力的优点和局限性。