Evaluating word embeddings with fMRI and eye-tracking

Abstract

The workshop CfP assumes that downstream evaluation of word embeddings is impractical, and that a valid evaluation metric for pairs of word embeddings can be found. I argue below that if so, the only meaningful evaluation procedure is comparison with measures of human word processing in the wild. Such evaluation is non-trivial, but I present a practical procedure here, evaluating word embeddings as features in a multi-dimensional regression model predicting brain imaging or eyetracking word-level aggregate statistics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP
Number of pages6
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2016
Pages116-121
ISBN (Print)978-1-5108-2770-7
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 7 Aug 201612 Aug 2016
Conference number: 1

Conference

Conference1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP
Number1
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period07/08/201612/08/2016

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