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# Word Embeddings, Analogies, and Machine Learning: Beyond king - man + woman = queen

@inproceedings{Drozd2016WordEA,
title={Word Embeddings, Analogies, and Machine Learning: Beyond king - man + woman = queen},
author={Aleksandr Drozd and Anna Rogers and Satoshi Matsuoka},
booktitle={COLING},
year={2016}
}
• Published in COLING 1 December 2016
• Computer Science
Solving word analogies became one of the most popular benchmarks for word embeddings on the assumption that linear relations between word pairs (such as king:man :: woman:queen) are indicative of the quality of the embedding. We question this assumption by showing that the information not detected by linear offset may still be recoverable by a more sophisticated search method, and thus is actually encoded in the embedding. The general problem with linear offset is its sensitivity to the…
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