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Scoring Lexical Entailment with a Supervised Directional Similarity Network

23 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.09355archive 2025-07-28

Marek Rei, Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić

We present the Supervised Directional Similarity Network (SDSN), a novel neural architecture for learning task-specific transformation functions on top of general-purpose word embeddings. Relying on only a limited amount of supervision from task-specific scores on a subset of the vocabulary, our architecture is able to generalise and transform a general-purpose distributional vector space to model the relation of lexical entailment. Experiments show excellent performance on scoring graded lexical entailment, raising the state-of-the-art on the HyperLex dataset by approximately 25%.

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