Abstract
Because word semantics can substantially change across communities and contexts, capturing domain-specific word semantics is an important challenge. Here, we propose SemAxis, a simple yet powerful framework to characterize word semantics using many semantic axes in word-vector spaces beyond sentiment. We demonstrate that SemAxis can capture nuanced semantic representations in multiple online communities. We also show that, when the sentiment axis is examined, SemAxis outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches in building domain-specific sentiment lexicons.- Anthology ID:
- P18-1228
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2450–2461
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P18-1228
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P18-1228
- Cite (ACL):
- Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, and Yong-Yeol Ahn. 2018. SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2450–2461, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment (An et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/P18-1228.pdf
- Code
- ghdi6758/SemAxis
- Data
- ConceptNet