Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models of Ancient Greek: Preliminary Results and a Road Map for Future Work

Silvia Stopponi, Nilo Pedrazzini, Saskia Peels, Barbara McGillivray, Malvina Nissim


Abstract
We evaluate four count-based and predictive distributional semantic models of Ancient Greek against AGREE, a composite benchmark of human judgements, to assess their ability to retrieve semantic relatedness. On the basis of the observations deriving from the analysis of the results, we design a procedure for a larger-scale intrinsic evaluation of count-based and predictive language models, including syntactic embeddings. We also propose possible ways of exploiting the different layers of the whole AGREE benchmark (including both human- and machine-generated data) and different evaluation metrics.
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2023.alp-1.6
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Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Adam Anderson, Shai Gordin, Bin Li, Yudong Liu, Marco C. Passarotti
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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49–58
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Silvia Stopponi, Nilo Pedrazzini, Saskia Peels, Barbara McGillivray, and Malvina Nissim. 2023. Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models of Ancient Greek: Preliminary Results and a Road Map for Future Work. In Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, pages 49–58, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models of Ancient Greek: Preliminary Results and a Road Map for Future Work (Stopponi et al., ALP-WS 2023)
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