English WordNet Random Walk Pseudo-Corpora

Filip Klubička, Alfredo Maldonado, Abhijit Mahalunkar, John Kelleher


Abstract
This is a resource description paper that describes the creation and properties of a set of pseudo-corpora generated artificially from a random walk over the English WordNet taxonomy. Our WordNet taxonomic random walk implementation allows the exploration of different random walk hyperparameters and the generation of a variety of different pseudo-corpora. We find that different combinations of parameters result in varying statistical properties of the generated pseudo-corpora. We have published a total of 81 pseudo-corpora that we have used in our previous research, but have not exhausted all possible combinations of hyperparameters, which is why we have also published a codebase that allows the generation of additional WordNet taxonomic pseudo-corpora as needed. Ultimately, such pseudo-corpora can be used to train taxonomic word embeddings, as a way of transferring taxonomic knowledge into a word embedding space.
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2020.lrec-1.602
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4893–4902
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.602
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Filip Klubička, Alfredo Maldonado, Abhijit Mahalunkar, and John Kelleher. 2020. English WordNet Random Walk Pseudo-Corpora. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4893–4902, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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English WordNet Random Walk Pseudo-Corpora (Klubička et al., LREC 2020)
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