Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings

Abstract

In this paper, we first analyze the semantic composition of word embeddings by cross-referencing their clusters with the manual lexical database, WordNet. We then evaluate a variety of word embedding approaches by comparing their contributions to two NLP tasks. Our experiments show that the word embedding clusters give high correlations to the synonym and hyponym sets in WordNet, and give 0.88% and 0.17% absolute improvements in accuracy to named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging, respectively.

Cite

Text

Zhai et al. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.9959

Markdown

[Zhai et al. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2016/zhai2016aaai-intrinsic/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.9959

BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhai2016aaai-intrinsic,
  title     = {{Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings}},
  author    = {Zhai, Michael and Tan, Johnny and Choi, Jinho D.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {4282-4283},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V30I1.9959},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2016/zhai2016aaai-intrinsic/}
}