Abstract
Distributed word vector spaces are considered hard to interpret which hinders the understanding of natural language processing (NLP) models. In this work, we introduce a new method to interpret arbitrary samples from a word vector space. To this end, we train a neural model to conceptualize word vectors, which means that it activates higher order concepts it recognizes in a given vector. Contrary to prior approaches, our model operates in the original vector space and is capable of learning non-linear relations between word vectors and concepts. Furthermore, we show that it produces considerably less entropic concept activation profiles than the popular cosine similarity.
Type
Publication
NAACL 2019 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP
Robert Schwarzenberg
PhD Candidate
Lisa Raithel
Post-doctoral Researcher
