Explaining and Generalizing Skip-Gram through Exponential Family Principal Component Analysis

Ryan Cotterell, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner


Abstract
The popular skip-gram model induces word embeddings by exploiting the signal from word-context coocurrence. We offer a new interpretation of skip-gram based on exponential family PCA-a form of matrix factorization to generalize the skip-gram model to tensor factorization. In turn, this lets us train embeddings through richer higher-order coocurrences, e.g., triples that include positional information (to incorporate syntax) or morphological information (to share parameters across related words). We experiment on 40 languages and show our model improves upon skip-gram.
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E17-2028
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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175–181
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Ryan Cotterell, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme, and Jason Eisner. 2017. Explaining and Generalizing Skip-Gram through Exponential Family Principal Component Analysis. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 175–181, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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