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Survey Analysis
An attempt to develop an Intuition of Semantic Relatedness
Outline
• Motivation• Survey framework• Analysis
Motivation• Semantic Relatedness – broad/subjective concept• Given a pair of words –
• Are they related?• If so, to what extent?• What is the kind of relationship between them?
• Answer varies from person to person – depends on his background, culture, work domain etc.
• Example: Apple - Computer
Existing Datasets
• Rubenstein & Goodenough (1965) – 65 English noun pairs (RG - 65)
• Miller and Charles (1991) – subset of RG-65, 30 English noun pairs (MC - 30)
• Finkelstein et al. (2002) – 353 word pairs (Fin1-153 and Fin2-200)
• Yang and Powers (2006) – 130 verb pairs (YP-130)
Problems with current datasets
• Part of speech limitation• Focus on semantic similarity instead of
relatedness• Size of dataset usually very small. Constructed
manually. Labor intensive.• Only general terms are included. Lack of
domain specific terms• Provides no insight into the type of SR
Survey Framework• Was created using 30 word pairs from Miller
and Charles (1991) dataset• Participants were asked to rate the
relatedness on a scale of 0 – 4, 0 being not related at all and 4 being highly related
• They were also asked to specify the kind of relationship
• They were made aware of the fact that 2 words may be related in a variety of ways – Synonymy, Antonymy, Frequent association, is a, part of, domain related etc.
Survey Framework
• Was conducted among students of IIT Bombay (particularly with a computer science & linguistics background)
• 55 students participated in the survey• Was created using Java Servlet and Tomcat
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ResultsSerial No. Word pair MC Original (38) MC New (55)
1 Car - Automobile 3.92 3.65
2 Gem - Jewel 3.84 3.22
3 Journey - Voyage 3.84 3.25
4 Boy - Lad 3.76 3.27
5 Coast - Shore 3.7 3.27
6 Asylum - Madhouse 3.61 2.14
7 Magician - Wizard 3.5 2.85
8 Midday - Noon 3.42 3.25
9 Furnace - Stove 3.11 2.34
10 Food - Fruit 3.08 2.78
Results
Serial No. Word Pair MC Original (38) MC New (55)
11 Bird - Cock 3.05 2.74
12 Bird - Crane 2.97 2.47
13 Tool - Implement 2.95 1.93
14 Brother - Monk 2.82 1.02
15 Lad - Brother 1.66 0.82
16 Crane - Implement 1.68 1.05
17 Journey - Car 1.16 2.18
18 Monk - Oracle 1.1 1.22
19Cemetery - Woodland 0.95 0.8
20 Food - Rooster 0.89 1.31
Results
Serial No. Word Pair MC Original (38) MC New (55)
21 Coast - Hill 0.87 1.2
22 Forest - Graveyard 0.84 0.74
23 Shore - Woodland 0.63 0.74
24 Monk - Slave 0.55 0.67
25 Coast - Forest 0.42 0.85
26 Lad - Wizard 0.42 0.49
27 Chord - Smile 0.13 0.58
28 Glass - Magician 0.11 0.82
29 Rooster - Voyage 0.08 0.24
30 Noon - String 0.08 0.31
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Correlation Coefficient
Correlation between MC new and original = 0.91 – quite strong
Correlation(X,Y)(x x)(y y)(x x)2 (y y)2
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