HG2Vec: Improved Word Embeddings from Dictionary and Thesaurus Based Heterogeneous Graph

Qitong Wang, Mohammed J Zaki


Abstract
Learning word embeddings is an essential topic in natural language processing. Most existing works use a vast corpus as a primary source while training, but this requires massive time and space for data pre-processing and model training. We propose a new model, HG2Vec, that learns word embeddings utilizing only dictionaries and thesauri. Our model reaches the state-of-art on multiple word similarity and relatedness benchmarks. We demonstrate that dictionaries and thesauri are effective resources to learn word embeddings. In addition, we exploit a new context-focused loss that models transitive relationships between word pairs and balances the performance between similarity and relatedness benchmarks, yielding superior results.
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2022.coling-1.279
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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3154–3163
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.279
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Qitong Wang and Mohammed J Zaki. 2022. HG2Vec: Improved Word Embeddings from Dictionary and Thesaurus Based Heterogeneous Graph. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3154–3163, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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HG2Vec: Improved Word Embeddings from Dictionary and Thesaurus Based Heterogeneous Graph (Wang & Zaki, COLING 2022)
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