We propose a novel vector representation that integrates lexical contrast into distributional vectors and strengthens the most salient features for determining degrees of word similarity. The improved vectors significantly outperform standard models and distinguish antonyms from synonyms with an average precision of 0.66-0.76 across word classes (adjectives, nouns, verbs). Moreover, we integrate the lexical contrast vectors into the objective function of a skip-gram model. The novel embedding outperforms state-of-the-art models on predicting word similarities in SimLex-999, and on distinguishing antonyms from synonyms.
@article{arxiv.1605.07766,
title = {Integrating Distributional Lexical Contrast into Word Embeddings for Antonym-Synonym Distinction},
author = {Kim Anh Nguyen and Sabine Schulte im Walde and Ngoc Thang Vu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07766},
year = {2016}
}