Top-Rank-Focused Adaptive Vote Collection for the Evaluation of Domain-Specific Semantic Models

Pierangelo Lombardo, Alessio Boiardi, Luca Colombo, Angelo Schiavone, Nicolò Tamagnone


Abstract
The growth of domain-specific applications of semantic models, boosted by the recent achievements of unsupervised embedding learning algorithms, demands domain-specific evaluation datasets. In many cases, content-based recommenders being a prime example, these models are required to rank words or texts according to their semantic relatedness to a given concept, with particular focus on top ranks. In this work, we give a threefold contribution to address these requirements: (i) we define a protocol for the construction, based on adaptive pairwise comparisons, of a relatedness-based evaluation dataset tailored on the available resources and optimized to be particularly accurate in top-rank evaluation; (ii) we define appropriate metrics, extensions of well-known ranking correlation coefficients, to evaluate a semantic model via the aforementioned dataset by taking into account the greater significance of top ranks. Finally, (iii) we define a stochastic transitivity model to simulate semantic-driven pairwise comparisons, which confirms the effectiveness of the proposed dataset construction protocol.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.249
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3081–3093
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.249
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.249
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Pierangelo Lombardo, Alessio Boiardi, Luca Colombo, Angelo Schiavone, and Nicolò Tamagnone. 2020. Top-Rank-Focused Adaptive Vote Collection for the Evaluation of Domain-Specific Semantic Models. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 3081–3093, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Top-Rank-Focused Adaptive Vote Collection for the Evaluation of Domain-Specific Semantic Models (Lombardo et al., EMNLP 2020)
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 intervieweb-datascience/adaptive-comp