Supervised Hypernymy Detection in Spanish through Order Embeddings

Gun Woo Lee, Mathias Etcheverry, Daniel Fernandez Sanchez, Dina Wonsever


Abstract
This paper addresses the task of supervised hypernymy detection in Spanish through an order embedding and using pretrained word vectors as input. Although the task has been widely addressed in English, there is not much work in Spanish, and according to our knowledge there is not any available dataset for supervised hypernymy detection in Spanish. We built a supervised hypernymy dataset for Spanish from WordNet and corpus statistics information, with different versions according to the lexical intersection between its partitions: random and lexical split. We show the results of using the resulting dataset within an order embedding consuming pretrained word vectors as input. We show the ability of pretrained word vectors to transfer learning to unseen lexical units according to the results in the lexical split dataset. To finish, we study the results of giving additional information in training time, such as, cohyponym links and instances extracted through patterns.
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2020.ldl-1.11
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020)
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Maxim Ionov, John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Julia Bosque-Gil, Jorge Gracia
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LDL
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European Language Resources Association
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75–81
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.ldl-1.11
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Gun Woo Lee, Mathias Etcheverry, Daniel Fernandez Sanchez, and Dina Wonsever. 2020. Supervised Hypernymy Detection in Spanish through Order Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020), pages 75–81, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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