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Exploring Category Structure with Contextual Language Models and Lexical Semantic Networks

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Recent work on predicting category structure with distributional models, using either static word embeddings (Heyman and Heyman, 2019) or contextualized language models (CLMs) (Misra et al., 2021), report low correlations with human ratings, thus calling into question their plausibility as models of human semantic memory. In this work, we revisit this question testing a wider array of methods for probing CLMs for predicting typicality scores. Our experiments, using BERT (Devlin et al., 2018), show the importance of using the right type of CLM probes, as our best BERT-based typicality prediction methods substantially improve over previous works. Second, our results highlight the importance of polysemy in this task: our best results are obtained when using a disambiguation mechanism. Finally, additional experiments reveal that Information Contentbased WordNet (Miller, 1995), also endowed with disambiguation, match the performance of the best BERT-based method, and in fact capture complementary information, which can be combined with BERT to achieve enhanced typicality predictions.
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hal-03986142 , version 1 (13-02-2023)

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Joseph Renner, Pascal Denis, Rémi Gilleron, Angèle Brunellière. Exploring Category Structure with Contextual Language Models and Lexical Semantic Networks. EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, May 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia. ⟨hal-03986142⟩
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