Looking at word meaning: an interactive visualization of semantic vector spaces for Dutch synsets

  • Authors:
  • Kris Heylen;Dirk Speelman;Dirk Geeraerts

  • Affiliations:
  • QLVL, University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium);QLVL, University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium);QLVL, University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)

  • Venue:
  • EACL 2012 Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In statistical NLP, Semantic Vector Spaces (SVS) are the standard technique for the automatic modeling of lexical semantics. However, it is largely unclear how these black-box techniques exactly capture word meaning. To explore the way an SVS structures the individual occurrences of words, we use a non-parametric MDS solution of a token-by-token similarity matrix. The MDS solution is visualized in an interactive plot with the Google Chart Tools. As a case study, we look at the occurrences of 476 Dutch nouns grouped in 214 synsets.