Word Re-Embedding via Manifold Dimensionality Retention

Souleiman Hasan, Edward Curry


Abstract
Word embeddings seek to recover a Euclidean metric space by mapping words into vectors, starting from words co-occurrences in a corpus. Word embeddings may underestimate the similarity between nearby words, and overestimate it between distant words in the Euclidean metric space. In this paper, we re-embed pre-trained word embeddings with a stage of manifold learning which retains dimensionality. We show that this approach is theoretically founded in the metric recovery paradigm, and empirically show that it can improve on state-of-the-art embeddings in word similarity tasks 0.5 - 5.0% points depending on the original space.
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D17-1033
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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321–326
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1033
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10.18653/v1/D17-1033
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Souleiman Hasan and Edward Curry. 2017. Word Re-Embedding via Manifold Dimensionality Retention. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 321–326, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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