RUFINO at SemEval-2017 Task 2: Cross-lingual lexical similarity by extending PMI and word embeddings systems with a Swadesh’s-like list

Sergio Jimenez, George Dueñas, Lorena Gaitan, Jorge Segura


Abstract
The RUFINO team proposed a non-supervised, conceptually-simple and low-cost approach for addressing the Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity challenge at SemEval 2017. The proposed systems were cross-lingual extensions of popular monolingual lexical similarity approaches such as PMI and word2vec. The extensions were possible by means of a small parallel list of concepts similar to the Swadesh’s list, which we obtained in a semi-automatic way. In spite of its simplicity, our approach showed to be effective obtaining statistically-significant and consistent results in all datasets proposed for the task. Besides, we provide some research directions for improving this novel and affordable approach.
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S17-2037
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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239–244
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2037
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2037
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Sergio Jimenez, George Dueñas, Lorena Gaitan, and Jorge Segura. 2017. RUFINO at SemEval-2017 Task 2: Cross-lingual lexical similarity by extending PMI and word embeddings systems with a Swadesh’s-like list. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 239–244, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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RUFINO at SemEval-2017 Task 2: Cross-lingual lexical similarity by extending PMI and word embeddings systems with a Swadesh’s-like list (Jimenez et al., SemEval 2017)
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