{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/paraphrases-do-not-explain-word-analogies","title":"Paraphrases do not explain word analogies","arxiv_id":"2102.11749","date":"2021-02-23","proceeding":"EACL 2021 2","authors":["Louis Fournier","Ewan Dunbar"],"abstract":"Many types of distributional word embeddings (weakly) encode linguistic regularities as directions (the difference between \"jump\" and \"jumped\" will be in a similar direction to that of \"walk\" and \"walked,\" and so on). Several attempts have been made to explain this fact. We respond to Allen and Hospedales' recent (ICML, 2019) theoretical explanation, which claims that word2vec and GloVe will encode linguistic regularities whenever a specific relation of paraphrase holds between the four words involved in the regularity. We demonstrate that the explanation does not go through: the paraphrase relations needed under this explanation do not hold empirically.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11749v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11749v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"paraphrases-do-not-explain-word-analogies","repo_url":"https://github.com/bootphon/paraphrases_do_not_explain_analogies","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"word-embeddings","task_name":"Word Embeddings"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"glove","method_name":"GloVe"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2102.11749","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}