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Improving Word Vector with Prior Knowledge in Semantic Dictionary

Computation and Language 2018-01-30 v1

Abstract

Using low dimensional vector space to represent words has been very effective in many NLP tasks. However, it doesn't work well when faced with the problem of rare and unseen words. In this paper, we propose to leverage the knowledge in semantic dictionary in combination with some morphological information to build an enhanced vector space. We get an improvement of 2.3% over the state-of-the-art Heidel Time system in temporal expression recognition, and obtain a large gain in other name entity recognition (NER) tasks. The semantic dictionary Hownet alone also shows promising results in computing lexical similarity.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09031,
  title  = {Improving Word Vector with Prior Knowledge in Semantic Dictionary},
  author = {Wei Li and Yunfang Wu and Xueqiang Lv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09031},
  year   = {2018}
}
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