Jiale Yu


2020

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SynET: Synonym Expansion using Transitivity
Jiale Yu | Yongliang Shen | Xinyin Ma | Chenghao Jia | Chen Chen | Weiming Lu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020

In this paper, we study a new task of synonym expansion using transitivity, and propose a novel approach named SynET, which considers both the contexts of two given synonym pairs. It introduces an auxiliary task to reduce the impact of noisy sentences, and proposes a Multi-Perspective Entity Matching Network to match entities from multiple perspectives. Extensive experiments on a real-world dataset show the effectiveness of our approach.