mwetoolkit+sem: Integrating Word Embeddings in the mwetoolkit for Semantic MWE Processing

Silvio Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio


Abstract
This paper presents mwetoolkit+sem: an extension of the mwetoolkit that estimates semantic compositionality scores for multiword expressions (MWEs) based on word embeddings. First, we describe our implementation of vector-space operations working on distributional vectors. The compositionality score is based on the cosine distance between the MWE vector and the composition of the vectors of its member words. Our generic system can handle several types of word embeddings and MWE lists, and may combine individual word representations using several composition techniques. We evaluate our implementation on a dataset of 1042 English noun compounds, comparing different configurations of the underlying word embeddings and word-composition models. We show that our vector-based scores model non-compositionality better than standard association measures such as log-likelihood.
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L16-1194
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1221–1225
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Silvio Cordeiro, Carlos Ramisch, and Aline Villavicencio. 2016. mwetoolkit+sem: Integrating Word Embeddings in the mwetoolkit for Semantic MWE Processing. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1221–1225, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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mwetoolkit+sem: Integrating Word Embeddings in the mwetoolkit for Semantic MWE Processing (Cordeiro et al., LREC 2016)
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