Evaluation of Taxonomy Enrichment on Diachronic WordNet Versions

Irina Nikishina, Natalia Loukachevitch, Varvara Logacheva, Alexander Panchenko


Abstract
The vast majority of the existing approaches for taxonomy enrichment apply word embeddings as they have proven to accumulate contexts (in a broad sense) extracted from texts which are sufficient for attaching orphan words to the taxonomy. On the other hand, apart from being large lexical and semantic resources, taxonomies are graph structures. Combining word embeddings with graph structure of taxonomy could be of use for predicting taxonomic relations. In this paper we compare several approaches for attaching new words to the existing taxonomy which are based on the graph representations with the one that relies on fastText embeddings. We test all methods on Russian and English datasets, but they could be also applied to other wordnets and languages.
Anthology ID:
2021.gwc-1.15
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference
Month:
January
Year:
2021
Address:
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Editors:
Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Global Wordnet Association
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Pages:
126–136
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.15
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Cite (ACL):
Irina Nikishina, Natalia Loukachevitch, Varvara Logacheva, and Alexander Panchenko. 2021. Evaluation of Taxonomy Enrichment on Diachronic WordNet Versions. In Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 126–136, University of South Africa (UNISA). Global Wordnet Association.
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Evaluation of Taxonomy Enrichment on Diachronic WordNet Versions (Nikishina et al., GWC 2021)
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Data
SemEval-2018 Task-9