CLDec 23, 2019

Semantics- and Syntax-related Subvectors in the Skip-gram Embeddings

arXiv:1912.13413v1
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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.

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