Abstract
Cross-lingual Hypernymy Detection involves determining if a word in one language (“fruit”) is a hypernym of a word in another language (“pomme” i.e. apple in French). The ability to detect hypernymy cross-lingually can aid in solving cross-lingual versions of tasks such as textual entailment and event coreference. We propose BiSparse-Dep, a family of unsupervised approaches for cross-lingual hypernymy detection, which learns sparse, bilingual word embeddings based on dependency contexts. We show that BiSparse-Dep can significantly improve performance on this task, compared to approaches based only on lexical context. Our approach is also robust, showing promise for low-resource settings: our dependency-based embeddings can be learned using a parser trained on related languages, with negligible loss in performance. We also crowd-source a challenging dataset for this task on four languages – Russian, French, Arabic, and Chinese. Our embeddings and datasets are publicly available.- Anthology ID:
- N18-1056
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 607–618
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N18-1056
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N18-1056
- Cite (ACL):
- Shyam Upadhyay, Yogarshi Vyas, Marine Carpuat, and Dan Roth. 2018. Robust Cross-Lingual Hypernymy Detection Using Dependency Context. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 607–618, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Robust Cross-Lingual Hypernymy Detection Using Dependency Context (Upadhyay et al., NAACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/N18-1056.pdf
- Code
- yogarshi/bisparse-dep