Word sense subjectivity for cross-lingual lexical substitution

  • Authors:
  • Fangzhong Su;Katja Markert

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

  • Venue:
  • HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We explore the relation between word sense subjectivity and cross-lingual lexical substitution, following the intuition that good substitutions will transfer a word's (contextual) sentiment from the source language into the target language. Experiments on English-Chinese lexical substitution show that taking a word's subjectivity into account can indeed improve performance. We also show that just using word sense subjectivity can perform as well as integrating fully-fledged fine-grained word sense disambiguation for words which have both subjective and objective senses.