Essays about: "Vecmap"

Found 2 essays containing the word Vecmap.

  1. 1. A Lexical Comparison Using Word Embedding Mapping from an Academic Word Usage Perspective

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Xuemei Cai; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis applies the word embedding mapping approach to make a lexical comparison from academic word usage perspective. We aim to demonstrate the differences in academic word usage between a corpus of student writings and a corpus of academic English, as well as a corpus of student writings and social media texts. READ MORE

  3. 2. Low Supervision, Low Corpus size, Low Similarity! Challenges in cross-lingual alignment of word embeddings : An exploration of the limitations of cross-lingual word embedding alignment in truly low resource scenarios

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Andrew Dyer; [2019]
    Keywords : word embeddings; cross-lingual; multilingual; low-resource; corpus size; Vecmap; FastText; alignment; orthogonal; eigenvalues; Laplacian; isospectral; isomorphic; bilingual lexicon induction;

    Abstract : Cross-lingual word embeddings are an increasingly important reseource in cross-lingual methods for NLP, particularly for their role in transfer learning and unsupervised machine translation, purportedly opening up the opportunity for NLP applications for low-resource languages.  However, most research in this area implicitly expects the availablility of vast monolingual corpora for training embeddings, a scenario which is not realistic for many of the world's languages. READ MORE