Better Word Embeddings by Disentangling Contextual n-Gram Information

Prakhar Gupta, Matteo Pagliardini, Martin Jaggi


Abstract
Pre-trained word vectors are ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing applications. In this paper, we show how training word embeddings jointly with bigram and even trigram embeddings, results in improved unigram embeddings. We claim that training word embeddings along with higher n-gram embeddings helps in the removal of the contextual information from the unigrams, resulting in better stand-alone word embeddings. We empirically show the validity of our hypothesis by outperforming other competing word representation models by a significant margin on a wide variety of tasks. We make our models publicly available.
Anthology ID:
N19-1098
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
933–939
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1098
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1098
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Cite (ACL):
Prakhar Gupta, Matteo Pagliardini, and Martin Jaggi. 2019. Better Word Embeddings by Disentangling Contextual n-Gram Information. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 933–939, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Better Word Embeddings by Disentangling Contextual n-Gram Information (Gupta et al., NAACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1098.pdf
Code
 epfml/sent2vec