UNAM at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Unsupervised Semantic Discriminative Attribute Identification in Neural Word Embedding Cones

Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández, Ivan Meza, Carlos-Francisco Méndez-Cruz


Abstract
In this paper we report an unsupervised method aimed to identify whether an attribute is discriminative for two words (which are treated as concepts, in our particular case). To this end, we use geometrically inspired vector operations underlying unsupervised decision functions. These decision functions operate on state-of-the-art neural word embeddings of the attribute and the concepts. The main idea can be described as follows: if attribute q discriminates concept a from concept b, then q is excluded from the feature set shared by these two concepts: the intersection. That is, the membership q∈ (a∩ b) does not hold. As a,b,q are represented with neural word embeddings, we tested vector operations allowing us to measure membership, i.e. fuzzy set operations (t-norm, for fuzzy intersection, and t-conorm, for fuzzy union) and the similarity between q and the convex cone described by a and b.
Anthology ID:
S18-1161
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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977–984
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S18-1161
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1161
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Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández, Ivan Meza, and Carlos-Francisco Méndez-Cruz. 2018. UNAM at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Unsupervised Semantic Discriminative Attribute Identification in Neural Word Embedding Cones. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 977–984, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UNAM at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Unsupervised Semantic Discriminative Attribute Identification in Neural Word Embedding Cones (Arroyo-Fernández et al., SemEval 2018)
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