UMD at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Can Word Embeddings Capture Discriminative Attributes?

Alexander Zhang, Marine Carpuat


Abstract
We describe the University of Maryland’s submission to SemEval-018 Task 10, “Capturing Discriminative Attributes”: given word triples (w1, w2, d), the goal is to determine whether d is a discriminating attribute belonging to w1 but not w2. Our study aims to determine whether word embeddings can address this challenging task. Our submission casts this problem as supervised binary classification using only word embedding features. Using a gaussian SVM model trained only on validation data results in an F-score of 60%. We also show that cosine similarity features are more effective, both in unsupervised systems (F-score of 65%) and supervised systems (F-score of 67%).
Anthology ID:
S18-1170
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
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1022–1026
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S18-1170
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1170
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Alexander Zhang and Marine Carpuat. 2018. UMD at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Can Word Embeddings Capture Discriminative Attributes?. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1022–1026, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UMD at SemEval-2018 Task 10: Can Word Embeddings Capture Discriminative Attributes? (Zhang & Carpuat, SemEval 2018)
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