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Improving Chinese Word Representation with Conceptual Semantics
Tingxin Wei1, 2, Weiguang Qu2, 3, *, Junsheng Zhou3, Yunfei Long4, Yanhui Gu3, Zhentao Xia3
1 International College for Chinese Studies, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097, China.
2 School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097, China.
3 School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
4 School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Essex, CO4 3DQ, UK.
* Corresponding Author: Weiguang Qu. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 64(3), 1897-1913. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.010813
Received 31 March 2020; Accepted 08 May 2020; Issue published 30 June 2020
Abstract
The meaning of a word includes a conceptual meaning and a distributive
meaning. Word embedding based on distribution suffers from insufficient conceptual
semantic representation caused by data sparsity, especially for low-frequency words. In
knowledge bases, manually annotated semantic knowledge is stable and the essential
attributes of words are accurately denoted. In this paper, we propose a Conceptual
Semantics Enhanced Word Representation (CEWR) model, computing the synset
embedding and hypernym embedding of Chinese words based on the Tongyici Cilin
thesaurus, and aggregating it with distributed word representation to have both distributed
information and the conceptual meaning encoded in the representation of words. We
evaluate the CEWR model on two tasks: word similarity computation and short text
classification. The Spearman correlation between model results and human judgement are
improved to 64.71%, 81.84%, and 85.16% on Wordsim297, MC30, and RG65,
respectively. Moreover, CEWR improves the F1 score by 3% in the short text
classification task. The experimental results show that CEWR can represent words in a
more informative approach than distributed word embedding. This proves that conceptual
semantics, especially hypernymous information, is a good complement to distributed
word representation.
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APA Style
Wei, T., Qu, W., Zhou, J., Long, Y., Gu, Y. et al. (2020). Improving chinese word representation with conceptual semantics. Computers, Materials & Continua, 64(3), 1897-1913. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.010813
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Wei T, Qu W, Zhou J, Long Y, Gu Y, Xia Z. Improving chinese word representation with conceptual semantics. Comput Mater Contin. 2020;64(3):1897-1913 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.010813
IEEE Style
T. Wei, W. Qu, J. Zhou, Y. Long, Y. Gu, and Z. Xia "Improving Chinese Word Representation with Conceptual Semantics," Comput. Mater. Contin., vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1897-1913. 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.010813