EVALution-MAN: A Chinese dataset for the training and evaluation of DSMs

Hongchao Liu, Karl Neergaard, Enrico Santus, Chu-ren Huang

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Abstract

Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are currently being used in the measurement of word relatedness and word similarity. One shortcoming of DSMs is that they do not provide a principled way to discriminate different semantic relations. Several approaches have been adopted that rely on annotated data either in the training of the model or later in its evaluation. In this paper, we introduce a dataset for training and evaluating DSMs on semantic relations discrimination between words, in Mandarin, Chinese. The construction of the dataset followed EVALution 1.0, which is an English dataset for the training and evaluating of DSMs. The dataset contains 360 relation pairs, distributed in five different semantic relations, including antonymy, synonymy, hypernymy, meronymy and nearsynonymy. All relation pairs were checked manually to estimate their quality. In the 360 word relation pairs, there are 373 relata. They were all extracted and subsequently manually tagged according to their semantic type. The relatas'frequency was calculated in a combined corpus of Sinica and Chinese Gigaword. To the best of our knowledge, EVALution-MAN is the first of its kind for Mandarin, Chinese.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages4583-4587
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9782951740891
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
Event10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 - Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portoroz, Slovenia
Duration: 23 May 201628 May 2016

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortoroz
Period23/05/1628/05/16

Keywords

  • Dataset
  • Distributioanl semantic models
  • Evaluating
  • Tarining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education

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