Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations
Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Marek Rei, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen
Abstract
We present a neural framework for learning associations between interrelated groups of words such as the ones found in Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) structures. Our model induces a joint function-specific word vector space, where vectors of e.g. plausible SVO compositions lie close together. The model retains information about word group membership even in the joint space, and can thereby effectively be applied to a number of tasks reasoning over the SVO structure. We show the robustness and versatility of the proposed framework by reporting state-of-the-art results on the tasks of estimating selectional preference and event similarity. The results indicate that the combinations of representations learned with our task-independent model outperform task-specific architectures from prior work, while reducing the number of parameters by up to 95%.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.257
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2872–2882
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.257
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.257
- Cite (ACL):
- Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Marek Rei, Roi Reichart, and Anna Korhonen. 2020. Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2872–2882, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations (Gerz et al., ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2020.acl-main.257.pdf
- Code
- cambridgeltl/fs-wrep