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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14616v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:04:24 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations
• Authors: Aina Gar\'i Soler, Matthieu Labeau and Chlo\'e Clavel
• Abstract summary: The quality of representations of words that are split is often, but not always, worse than that of the embeddings of known 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.
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• Abstract: 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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