Distinguishing Antonyms and Synonyms in a Pattern-based Neural Network

Kim Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Ngoc Thang Vu


Abstract
Distinguishing between antonyms and synonyms is a key task to achieve high performance in NLP systems. While they are notoriously difficult to distinguish by distributional co-occurrence models, pattern-based methods have proven effective to differentiate between the relations. In this paper, we present a novel neural network model AntSynNET that exploits lexico-syntactic patterns from syntactic parse trees. In addition to the lexical and syntactic information, we successfully integrate the distance between the related words along the syntactic path as a new pattern feature. The results from classification experiments show that AntSynNET improves the performance over prior pattern-based methods.
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E17-1008
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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76–85
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https://aclanthology.org/E17-1008
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Kim Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde, and Ngoc Thang Vu. 2017. Distinguishing Antonyms and Synonyms in a Pattern-based Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, pages 76–85, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Distinguishing Antonyms and Synonyms in a Pattern-based Neural Network (Nguyen et al., EACL 2017)
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 nguyenkh/AntSynNET