BAHP: Benchmark of Assessing Word Embeddings in Historical Portuguese

Zuoyu Tian, Dylan Jarrett, Juan Escalona Torres, Patricia Amaral


Abstract
High quality distributional models can capture lexical and semantic relations between words. Hence, researchers design various intrinsic tasks to test whether such relations are captured. However, most of the intrinsic tasks are designed for modern languages, and there is a lack of evaluation methods for distributional models of historical corpora. In this paper, we conducted BAHP: a benchmark of assessing word embeddings in Historical Portuguese, which contains four types of tests: analogy, similarity, outlier detection, and coherence. We examined word2vec models generated from two historical Portuguese corpora in these four test sets. The results demonstrate that our test sets are capable of measuring the quality of vector space models and can provide a holistic view of the model’s ability to capture syntactic and semantic information. Furthermore, the methodology for the creation of our test sets can be easily extended to other historical languages.
Anthology ID:
2021.latechclfl-1.13
Volume:
Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (online)
Editors:
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
Venue:
LaTeCHCLfL
SIG:
SIGHUM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
113–119
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.latechclfl-1.13
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.latechclfl-1.13
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Zuoyu Tian, Dylan Jarrett, Juan Escalona Torres, and Patricia Amaral. 2021. BAHP: Benchmark of Assessing Word Embeddings in Historical Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 113–119, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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BAHP: Benchmark of Assessing Word Embeddings in Historical Portuguese (Tian et al., LaTeCHCLfL 2021)
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