Space Decomposition for Sentence Embedding
Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Sarana Nutanong
Abstract
Determining sentence pair similarity is crucial for various NLP tasks. A common technique to address this is typically evaluated on a continuous semantic textual similarity scale from 0 to 5. However, based on a linguistic observation in STS annotation guidelines, we found that the score in the range [4,5] indicates an upper-range sample, while the rest are lower-range samples. This necessitates a new approach to treating the upper-range and lower-range classes separately. In this paper, we introduce a novel embedding space decomposition method called MixSP utilizing a Mixture of Specialized Projectors, designed to distinguish and rank upper-range and lower-range samples accurately. The experimental results demonstrate that MixSP decreased the overlap representation between upper-range and lower-range classes significantly while outperforming competitors on STS and zero-shot benchmarks.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.findings-acl.668
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
- Editors:
- Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11227–11239
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.668
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, and Sarana Nutanong. 2024. Space Decomposition for Sentence Embedding. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 11227–11239, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Space Decomposition for Sentence Embedding (Ponwitayarat et al., Findings 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.findings-acl.668.pdf