Issues in evaluating semantic spaces using word analogies
Computation and Language
2016-06-27 v1
Abstract
The offset method for solving word analogies has become a standard evaluation tool for vector-space semantic models: it is considered desirable for a space to represent semantic relations as consistent vector offsets. We show that the method's reliance on cosine similarity conflates offset consistency with largely irrelevant neighborhood structure, and propose simple baselines that should be used to improve the utility of the method in vector space evaluation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.07736,
title = {Issues in evaluating semantic spaces using word analogies},
author = {Tal Linzen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07736},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages; The First Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP