The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations

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Main Authors: Soler, Aina Garí, Labeau, Matthieu, Clavel, Chloé
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author Soler, Aina Garí
Labeau, Matthieu
Clavel, Chloé
author_facet Soler, Aina Garí
Labeau, Matthieu
Clavel, Chloé
contents When deriving contextualized word representations from language models, a decision needs to be made on how to obtain one for out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words that are segmented into subwords. What is the best way to represent these words with a single vector, and are these representations of worse quality than those of in-vocabulary words? We carry out an intrinsic evaluation of embeddings from different models on semantic similarity tasks involving OOV words. Our analysis reveals, among other interesting findings, that the quality of representations of words that are split is often, but not always, worse than that of the embeddings of known words. Their similarity values, however, must be interpreted with caution.
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spellingShingle The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations
Soler, Aina Garí
Labeau, Matthieu
Clavel, Chloé
Computation and Language
When deriving contextualized word representations from language models, a decision needs to be made on how to obtain one for out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words that are segmented into subwords. What is the best way to represent these words with a single vector, and are these representations of worse quality than those of in-vocabulary words? We carry out an intrinsic evaluation of embeddings from different models on semantic similarity tasks involving OOV words. Our analysis reveals, among other interesting findings, that the quality of representations of words that are split is often, but not always, worse than that of the embeddings of known words. Their similarity values, however, must be interpreted with caution.
title The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14616