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Generating Sense Embeddings for Syntactic and Semantic Analogy for Portuguese

21 Jan 2020arXiv:2001.07574archive 2025-07-28

Jessica Rodrigues da Silva, Helena de Medeiros Caseli

Word embeddings are numerical vectors which can represent words or concepts in a low-dimensional continuous space. These vectors are able to capture useful syntactic and semantic information. The traditional approaches like Word2Vec, GloVe and FastText have a strict drawback: they produce a single vector representation per word ignoring the fact that ambiguous words can assume different meanings. In this paper we use techniques to generate sense embeddings and present the first experiments carried out for Portuguese. Our experiments show that sense vectors outperform traditional word vectors in syntactic and semantic analogy tasks, proving that the language resource generated here can improve the performance of NLP tasks in Portuguese.

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