CLDec 23, 2019
Semantics- and Syntax-related Subvectors in the Skip-gram Embeddings
arXiv:1912.13413v1
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This addresses a fundamental issue in natural language processing for researchers and practitioners by offering insights into embedding interpretability, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing skip-gram methods.
The paper tackled the problem of understanding word embeddings by showing that skip-gram embeddings can be decomposed into semantic and syntactic subvectors, providing a structural interpretation of these representations.
We show that the skip-gram embedding of any word can be decomposed into two subvectors which roughly correspond to semantic and syntactic roles of the word.