Definition Frames: Using Definitions for Hybrid Concept Representations

Code

• github.com/spilioeve/Definition-Frames
  OfficialIn paperpytorch★ 0

Abstract

Advances in word representations have shown tremendous improvements in downstream NLP tasks, but lack semantic interpretability. In this paper, we introduce Definition Frames (DF), a matrix distributed representation extracted from definitions, where each dimension is semantically interpretable. DF dimensions correspond to the Qualia structure relations: a set of relations that uniquely define a term. Our results show that DFs have competitive performance with other distributional semantic approaches on word similarity tasks.

Tasks

Reproductions