Evaluating semantic relations in neural word embeddings with biomedical and general domain knowledge bases.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the past few years, neural word embeddings have been widely used in text mining. However, the vector representations of word embeddings mostly act as a black box in downstream applications using them, thereby limiting their interpretability. Even though word embeddings are able to capture semantic regularities in free text documents, it is not clear how different kinds of semantic relations are represented by word embeddings and how semantically-related terms can be retrieved from word embeddings.

Authors

  • Zhiwei Chen
    School of Life Sciences, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, PR China.
  • Zhe He
    School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
  • Xiuwen Liu
    Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530, United States. Electronic address: liux@cs.fsu.edu.
  • Jiang Bian
    Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.