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Definition Frames: Using Definitions for Hybrid Concept Representations

Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Artidoro Pagnoni, Eduard Hovy

Abstract

Advances in word representations have shown tremendous improvements in downstream NLP tasks, but lack semantic interpretability. In this paper, we introduce Definition Frames (DF), a matrix distributed representation extracted from definitions, where each dimension is semantically interpretable. DF dimensions correspond to the Qualia structure relations: a set of relations that uniquely define a term. Our results show that DFs have competitive performance with other distributional semantic approaches on word similarity tasks.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{spiliopoulou-etal-2020-definition,
    title = "Definition Frames: Using Definitions for Hybrid Concept Representations",
    author = "Spiliopoulou, Evangelia  and
      Pagnoni, Artidoro  and
      Hovy, Eduard",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.273/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.273",
    pages = "3060--3068"
}
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