%0 Conference Proceedings %T HG2Vec: Improved Word Embeddings from Dictionary and Thesaurus Based Heterogeneous Graph %A Wang, Qitong %A Zaki, Mohammed J. %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Huang, Chu-Ren %Y Kim, Hansaem %Y Pustejovsky, James %Y Wanner, Leo %Y Choi, Key-Sun %Y Ryu, Pum-Mo %Y Chen, Hsin-Hsi %Y Donatelli, Lucia %Y Ji, Heng %Y Kurohashi, Sadao %Y Paggio, Patrizia %Y Xue, Nianwen %Y Kim, Seokhwan %Y Hahm, Younggyun %Y He, Zhong %Y Lee, Tony Kyungil %Y Santus, Enrico %Y Bond, Francis %Y Na, Seung-Hoon %S Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics %D 2022 %8 October %I International Committee on Computational Linguistics %C Gyeongju, Republic of Korea %F wang-zaki-2022-hg2vec %X 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. %U https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.279 %P 3154-3163