@InProceedings{hellrich-hahn:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Hellrich, Johannes  and  Hahn, Udo},
  title     = {Bad Company—Neighborhoods in Neural Embedding Spaces Considered Harmful},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {2785--2796},
  abstract  = {We assess the reliability and accuracy of (neural) word embeddings for both
	modern and historical English and German. Our research provides deeper insights
	into the empirically justified choice of optimal training methods and
	parameters. The overall low reliability we observe, nevertheless, casts doubt
	on the suitability of word neighborhoods in embedding spaces as a basis for
	qualitative conclusions on synchronic and diachronic lexico-semantic matters,
	an issue currently high up in the agenda of Digital Humanities.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1262}
}