Learning Antonyms with Paraphrases and a Morphology-Aware Neural Network

Sneha Rajana, Chris Callison-Burch, Marianna Apidianaki, Vered Shwartz


Abstract
Recognizing and distinguishing antonyms from other types of semantic relations is an essential part of language understanding systems. In this paper, we present a novel method for deriving antonym pairs using paraphrase pairs containing negation markers. We further propose a neural network model, AntNET, that integrates morphological features indicative of antonymy into a path-based relation detection algorithm. We demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models in distinguishing antonyms from other semantic relations and is capable of efficiently handling multi-word expressions.
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S17-1002
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Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Nancy Ide, Aurélie Herbelot, Lluís Màrquez
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*SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12–21
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-1002
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-1002
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Sneha Rajana, Chris Callison-Burch, Marianna Apidianaki, and Vered Shwartz. 2017. Learning Antonyms with Paraphrases and a Morphology-Aware Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 12–21, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Learning Antonyms with Paraphrases and a Morphology-Aware Neural Network (Rajana et al., *SEM 2017)
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