The Limitations of Cross-language Word Embeddings Evaluation

Amir Bakarov, Roman Suvorov, Ilya Sochenkov


Abstract
The aim of this work is to explore the possible limitations of existing methods of cross-language word embeddings evaluation, addressing the lack of correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic cross-language evaluation methods. To prove this hypothesis, we construct English-Russian datasets for extrinsic and intrinsic evaluation tasks and compare performances of 5 different cross-language models on them. The results say that the scores even on different intrinsic benchmarks do not correlate to each other. We can conclude that the use of human references as ground truth for cross-language word embeddings is not proper unless one does not understand how do native speakers process semantics in their cognition.
Anthology ID:
S18-2010
Volume:
Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Malvina Nissim, Jonathan Berant, Alessandro Lenci
Venue:
*SEM
SIGs:
SIGLEX | SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
94–100
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S18-2010
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-2010
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Cite (ACL):
Amir Bakarov, Roman Suvorov, and Ilya Sochenkov. 2018. The Limitations of Cross-language Word Embeddings Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 94–100, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The Limitations of Cross-language Word Embeddings Evaluation (Bakarov et al., *SEM 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-2010.pdf
Code
 bakarov/cross-lang-embeddings