Challenging Distributional Models with a Conceptual Network of Philosophical Terms

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Abstract

Computational linguistic research on language change through distributional semantic (DS) models has inspired researchers from fields such as philosophy and literary studies, who use these methods for the exploration and comparison of comparatively small datasets traditionally analyzed by close reading. Research on methods for small data is still in early stages and it is not clear which methods achieve the best results. We investigate the possibilities and limitations of using distributional semantic models for analyzing philosophical data by means of a realistic use-case. We provide a ground truth for evaluation created by philosophy experts and a blueprint for using DS models in a sound methodological setup. We compare three methods for creating specialized models from small datasets. Though the models do not perform well enough to directly support philosophers yet, we find that models designed for small data yield promising directions for future work.

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Oortwijn, Y., Bloem, J., Sommerauer, P., Meyer, F., Zhou, W., & Fokkens, A. (2021). Challenging Distributional Models with a Conceptual Network of Philosophical Terms. In NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 2511–2522). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.199

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