Graph-based Relation Mining for Context-free Out-of-vocabulary Word Embedding Learning

Ziran Liang, Yuyin Lu, HeGang Chen, Yanghui Rao


Abstract
The out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words are difficult to represent while critical to the performance of embedding-based downstream models. Prior OOV word embedding learning methods failed to model complex word formation well. In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based relation mining method, namely GRM, for OOV word embedding learning. We first build a Word Relationship Graph (WRG) based on word formation and associate OOV words with their semantically relevant words, which can mine the relational information inside word structures. Subsequently, our GRM can infer high-quality embeddings for OOV words through passing and aggregating semantic attributes and relational information in the WRG, regardless of contextual richness. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on both intrinsic and downstream tasks when faced with OOV words.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-long.790
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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14133–14149
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.790
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.790
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Ziran Liang, Yuyin Lu, HeGang Chen, and Yanghui Rao. 2023. Graph-based Relation Mining for Context-free Out-of-vocabulary Word Embedding Learning. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14133–14149, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Graph-based Relation Mining for Context-free Out-of-vocabulary Word Embedding Learning (Liang et al., ACL 2023)
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