Patricia Amaral


2021

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BAHP: Benchmark of Assessing Word Embeddings in Historical Portuguese
Zuoyu Tian | Dylan Jarrett | Juan Escalona Torres | Patricia Amaral
Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

High quality distributional models can capture lexical and semantic relations between words. Hence, researchers design various intrinsic tasks to test whether such relations are captured. However, most of the intrinsic tasks are designed for modern languages, and there is a lack of evaluation methods for distributional models of historical corpora. In this paper, we conducted BAHP: a benchmark of assessing word embeddings in Historical Portuguese, which contains four types of tests: analogy, similarity, outlier detection, and coherence. We examined word2vec models generated from two historical Portuguese corpora in these four test sets. The results demonstrate that our test sets are capable of measuring the quality of vector space models and can provide a holistic view of the model’s ability to capture syntactic and semantic information. Furthermore, the methodology for the creation of our test sets can be easily extended to other historical languages.

2012

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Where’s the meeting that was cancelled? existential implications of transitive verbs
Patricia Amaral | Valeria de Paiva | Cleo Condoravdi | Annie Zaenen
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon