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@inProceedings{johansson-nietopina-2015-embedding-217863,
	title        = {Embedding a Semantic Network in a Word Space},
	abstract     = {We present a framework for using continuous-
space vector representations of word meaning
to derive new vectors representing the meaning of senses listed in a semantic network. It is a post-processing approach that can be applied to several types of word vector representations. It uses two ideas: first, that vectors for polysemous words can be decomposed into a convex combination of sense vectors; secondly, that the vector for a sense is kept similar to those of its neighbors in the network.This leads to a constrained optimization problem, and we present an approximation for the case when the distance function is the squared Euclidean.

We applied this algorithm on a Swedish semantic network, and we evaluate the quality
of the resulting sense representations extrinsically by showing that they give large improvements when used in a classifier that creates lexical units for FrameNet frames.
},
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Denver, United States, May 31 – June 5, 2015},
	author       = {Johansson, Richard and Nieto Piña, Luis},
	year         = {2015},
	ISBN         = {978-1-941643-49-5},
	pages        = {1428--1433},
}