NDLI: A supervised ranking approach for detecting relationally similar word pairs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bollegala, D.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Graduate School of Information Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Bollegala, D.)
Abstract	The similarity between the semantic relations that exist between two word pairs is defined as their relational similarity. For example, the semantic relation, is a large holds between the words in the word pair (lion, cat) and (ostrich, bird), because lion is a large cat, and ostrich is the largest living bird on earth. Consequently, the two word pairs, (lion, cat) and (ostrich, bird), are considered to be relationally similar. A high degree of relational similarity can be observed between analogous pairs of words. Measuring the relational similarity between word pairs is important in numerous natural language processing tasks such as solving word analogy questions, classifying noun-modifier relations and disambiguating word senses. We propose a supervised ranking-based method to detect relationally similar word pairs to a given word pair using information retrieved from a Web search engine. First, each pair of words is represented by a vector of automatically extracted lexical patterns. Then a ranking Support Vector Machine is trained to recognize word pairs with similar semantic relations to a given word pair. To train and evaluate the proposed method, we use a benchmark dataset that contains 374 SAT multiple-choice word-analogy questions. To represent the relations that exist between two word pairs, we experiment with 11 different feature functions, including both symmetric and asymmetric feature functions. Our experimental results show that the proposed ranking-based approach outperforms several previously proposed relational similarity measures on this benchmark dataset, achieving an SAT score of 46.9.
Starting Page	323
Ending Page	328
File Size	238918
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424485499
e-ISBN	9781424485529
DOI	10.1109/ICIAFS.2010.5715681
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-12-17
Publisher Place	Sri Lanka
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Support vector machines Measurement ranking SVMs relational similarity Semantics Search engines Birds Kernel Web search
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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