Unsupervised and constrained Dirichlet process mixture models for verb clustering

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Vlachos;Anna Korhonen;Zoubin Ghahramani

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • GEMS '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this work, we apply Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (DPMMs) to a learning task in natural language processing (NLP): lexical-semantic verb clustering. We thoroughly evaluate a method of guiding DPMMs towards a particular clustering solution using pairwise constraints. The quantitative and qualitative evaluation performed highlights the benefits of both standard and constrained DPMMs compared to previously used approaches. In addition, it sheds light on the use of evaluation measures and their practical application.