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Representation of complex terms in a vector space structured by an ontology for a normalization task

Abstract

We propose in this paper a semisupervised method for labeling terms of texts with concepts of a domain ontology. The method generates continuous vector representations of complex terms in a semantic space structured by the ontology. The proposed method relies on a distributional semantics approach, which generates initial vectors for each of the extracted terms. Then these vectors are embedded in the vector space constructed from the structure of the ontology. This embedding is carried out by training a linear model. Finally, we apply a cosine similarity to determine the proximity between vectors of terms and vectors of concepts and thus to assign ontology labels to terms. We have evaluated the quality of these representations for a normalization task by using the concepts of an ontology as semantic labels. Normalization of terms is an important step to extract a part of the information contained in texts, but the vector space generated might find other applications. The performance of this method is comparable to that of the state of the art for this task of standardization, opening up encouraging prospects.

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hal-01582292 , version 1 (05-09-2017)

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Arnaud Ferré, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Claire Nédellec. Representation of complex terms in a vector space structured by an ontology for a normalization task. BioNLP 2017 Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, Aug 2017, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨10.18653/v1/W17-2312⟩. ⟨hal-01582292⟩
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