@inproceedings{fournier-dunbar-2021-paraphrases,
title = "Paraphrases do not explain word analogies",
author = "Fournier, Louis and
Dunbar, Ewan",
editor = "Merlo, Paola and
Tiedemann, Jorg and
Tsarfaty, Reut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.182",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.182",
pages = "2129--2134",
abstract = "Many types of distributional word embeddings (weakly) encode linguistic regularities as directions (the difference between jump and jumped will be in a similar direction to that of walk and walked, and so on). Several attempts have been made to explain this fact. We respond to Allen and Hospedales{'} recent (ICML, 2019) theoretical explanation, which claims that word2vec and GloVe will encode linguistic regularities whenever a specific relation of paraphrase holds between the four words involved in the regularity. We demonstrate that the explanation does not go through: the paraphrase relations needed under this explanation do not hold empirically",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Paraphrases do not explain word analogies](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.182) (Fournier & Dunbar, EACL 2021)
ACL
- Louis Fournier and Ewan Dunbar. 2021. Paraphrases do not explain word analogies. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 2129–2134, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.