A Simple Regularization-based Algorithm for Learning Cross-Domain Word Embeddings

Wei Yang, Wei Lu, Vincent Zheng


Abstract
Learning word embeddings has received a significant amount of attention recently. Often, word embeddings are learned in an unsupervised manner from a large collection of text. The genre of the text typically plays an important role in the effectiveness of the resulting embeddings. How to effectively train word embedding models using data from different domains remains a problem that is less explored. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective method for learning word embeddings based on text from different domains. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through extensive experiments on various down-stream NLP tasks.
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D17-1312
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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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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2898–2904
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1312
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1312
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Wei Yang, Wei Lu, and Vincent Zheng. 2017. A Simple Regularization-based Algorithm for Learning Cross-Domain Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2898–2904, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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