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Learning Word Sense Embeddings from Word Sense Definitions

Computation and Language 2016-10-25 v4

Abstract

Word embeddings play a significant role in many modern NLP systems. Since learning one representation per word is problematic for polysemous words and homonymous words, researchers propose to use one embedding per word sense. Their approaches mainly train word sense embeddings on a corpus. In this paper, we propose to use word sense definitions to learn one embedding per word sense. Experimental results on word similarity tasks and a word sense disambiguation task show that word sense embeddings produced by our approach are of high quality.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04835,
  title  = {Learning Word Sense Embeddings from Word Sense Definitions},
  author = {Qi Li and Tianshi Li and Baobao Chang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04835},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

To appear at NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016

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