Contextualized Word Vector-based Methods for Discovering Semantic Differences with No Training nor Word Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11516v1
• Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:27:17 GMT
• Title: Contextualized Word Vector-based Methods for Discovering Semantic Differences with No Training nor Word Alignment
• Authors: Ryo Nagata, Hiroya Takamura, Naoki Otani, and Yoshifumi Kawasaki
• Abstract summary: We propose methods for discovering semantic differences in words appearing in two corpora. The key idea is that the coverage of meanings is reflected in the norm of its mean word vector. We show these advantages for native and non-native English corpora and also for historical corpora.
• Score: 17.229611956178818
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose methods for discovering semantic differences in words appearing in two corpora based on the norms of contextualized word vectors. The key idea is that the coverage of meanings is reflected in the norm of its mean word vector. The proposed methods do not require the assumptions concerning words and corpora for comparison that the previous methods do. All they require are to compute the mean vector of contextualized word vectors and its norm for each word type. Nevertheless, they are (i) robust for the skew in corpus size; (ii) capable of detecting semantic differences in infrequent words; and (iii) effective in pinpointing word instances that have a meaning missing in one of the two corpora for comparison. We show these advantages for native and non-native English corpora and also for historical corpora.

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