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SimRelUz: Similarity and Relatedness scores as a Semantic Evaluation dataset for Uzbek language

Computation and Language 2022-05-13 v1

Abstract

Semantic relatedness between words is one of the core concepts in natural language processing, thus making semantic evaluation an important task. In this paper, we present a semantic model evaluation dataset: SimRelUz - a collection of similarity and relatedness scores of word pairs for the low-resource Uzbek language. The dataset consists of more than a thousand pairs of words carefully selected based on their morphological features, occurrence frequency, semantic relation, as well as annotated by eleven native Uzbek speakers from different age groups and gender. We also paid attention to the problem of dealing with rare words and out-of-vocabulary words to thoroughly evaluate the robustness of semantic models.

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@article{arxiv.2205.06072,
  title  = {SimRelUz: Similarity and Relatedness scores as a Semantic Evaluation dataset for Uzbek language},
  author = {Ulugbek Salaev and Elmurod Kuriyozov and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06072},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Final version, published in the proceedings of SIGUL workshop of LREC 2022