Transparent, efficient, and robust word embedding access with WOMBAT
- We present WOMBAT, a Python tool which supports NLP practitioners in accessing word embeddings from code. WOMBAT addresses common research problems, including unified access, scaling, and robust and reproducible preprocessing. Code that uses WOMBAT for accessing word embeddings is not only cleaner, more readable, and easier to reuse, but also much more efficient than code using standard in-memory methods: a Python script using WOMBAT for evaluating seven large word embedding collections (8.7M embedding vectors in total) on a simple SemEval sentence similarity task involving 250 raw sentence pairs completes in under ten seconds end-to-end on a standard notebook computer.
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| Author: | Mark-Christoph MüllerORCiDGND, Michael StrubeGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-110862 |
| URL: | https://aclanthology.org/C18-2012 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-948087-53-7 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. August 20-26, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |
| Editor: | Dongyan Zhao |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/14 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | WOrd eMBedding dATabase (WOMBAT); word embedding |
| GND Keyword: | Automatische Sprachanalyse; Code; Computerlinguistik; Python <Programmiersprache> |
| First Page: | 53 |
| Last Page: | 57 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |