LX-DSemvectors: Distributional semantics models for Portuguese

Abstract

In this article we describe the creation and distribution of the first publicly available word embeddings for Portuguese. Our embeddings are evaluated on their own and also compared with the original English models on a well-known analogy task. We gathered a large Portuguese corpus of 1.7 billion tokens, developed the first distributional semantic analogies test set for Portuguese, and proceeded with the first parametrization and evaluation of Portuguese word embeddings models.