Classifying Out-of-vocabulary Terms in a Domain-Specific Social Media Corpus

SoHyun Park, Afsaneh Fazly, Annie Lee, Brandon Seibel, Wenjie Zi, Paul Cook


Abstract
In this paper we consider the problem of out-of-vocabulary term classification in web forum text from the automotive domain. We develop a set of nine domain- and application-specific categories for out-of-vocabulary terms. We then propose a supervised approach to classify out-of-vocabulary terms according to these categories, drawing on features based on word embeddings, and linguistic knowledge of common properties of out-of-vocabulary terms. We show that the features based on word embeddings are particularly informative for this task. The categories that we predict could serve as a preliminary, automatically-generated source of lexical knowledge about out-of-vocabulary terms. Furthermore, we show that this approach can be adapted to give a semi-automated method for identifying out-of-vocabulary terms of a particular category, automotive named entities, that is of particular interest to us.
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L16-1474
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2971–2975
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SoHyun Park, Afsaneh Fazly, Annie Lee, Brandon Seibel, Wenjie Zi, and Paul Cook. 2016. Classifying Out-of-vocabulary Terms in a Domain-Specific Social Media Corpus. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2971–2975, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Classifying Out-of-vocabulary Terms in a Domain-Specific Social Media Corpus (Park et al., LREC 2016)
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