Is Similarity Visually Grounded? Computational Model of Similarity for the Estonian language

Claudia Kittask, Eduard Barbu


Abstract
Researchers in Computational Linguistics build models of similarity and test them against human judgments. Although there are many empirical studies of the computational models of similarity for the English language, the similarity for other languages is less explored. In this study we are chiefly interested in two aspects. In the first place we want to know how much of the human similarity is grounded in the visual perception. To answer this question two neural computer vision models are used and their correlation with the human derived similarity scores is computed. In the second place we investigate if language influences the similarity computation. To this purpose diverse computational models trained on Estonian resources are evaluated against human judgments
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R19-1064
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
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September
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2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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541–549
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-1064
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_064
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Claudia Kittask and Eduard Barbu. 2019. Is Similarity Visually Grounded? Computational Model of Similarity for the Estonian language. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 541–549, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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