Abstract
Is it possible to use images to model verb semantic similarities? Starting from this core question, we developed two textual distributional semantic models and a visual one. We found particularly interesting and challenging to investigate this Part of Speech since verbs are not often analysed in researches focused on multimodal distributional semantics. After the creation of the visual and textual distributional space, the three models were evaluated in relation to SimLex-999, a gold standard resource. Through this evaluation, we demonstrate that, using visual distributional models, it is possible to extract meaningful information and to effectively capture the semantic similarity between verbs.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.718
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5865–5870
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.718
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Irene Sucameli and Alessandro Lenci. 2020. Representing Verbs with Visual Argument Vectors. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5865–5870, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Representing Verbs with Visual Argument Vectors (Sucameli & Lenci, LREC 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.lrec-1.718.pdf