{"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/syntactic-interchangeability-in-word","title":"Syntactic Interchangeability in Word Embedding Models","arxiv_id":"1904.00669","date":"2019-04-01","proceeding":"WS 2019 6","authors":["Daniel Hershcovich","Assaf Toledo","Alon Halfon","Noam Slonim"],"abstract":"Nearest neighbors in word embedding models are commonly observed to be\nsemantically similar, but the relations between them can vary greatly. We\ninvestigate the extent to which word embedding models preserve syntactic\ninterchangeability, as reflected by distances between word vectors, and the\neffect of hyper-parameters---context window size in particular. We use part of\nspeech (POS) as a proxy for syntactic interchangeability, as generally\nspeaking, words with the same POS are syntactically valid in the same contexts.\nWe also investigate the relationship between interchangeability and similarity\nas judged by commonly-used word similarity benchmarks, and correlate the result\nwith the performance of word embedding models on these benchmarks. Our results\nwill inform future research and applications in the selection of word embedding\nmodel, suggesting a principle for an appropriate selection of the context\nwindow size parameter depending on the use-case.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00669v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.00669v2.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":"syntactic-interchangeability-in-word","repo_url":"https://github.com/danielhers/interchangeability","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"pos","task_name":"POS"},{"task_slug":"word-similarity","task_name":"Word Similarity"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"valid"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1904.00669","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}