Ivana Kajić and Chris Eliasmith. Evaluating the psychological plausibility of word2vec and glove distributional semantic models. Technical Report, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, Waterloo, ON, 08 2018. URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327209035_Evaluating_the_psychological_plausibility_of_word2vec_and_GloVe_distributional_semantic_models, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.25289.60004.
@techreport{kajic2018,
title = {Evaluating the psychological plausibility of word2vec and GloVe
distributional semantic models},
year = {2018},
month = {08},
institution = {Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience},
address = {Waterloo, ON},
abstract = {
The representation of semantic knowledge poses a central modelling
decision in many models of cognitive phenomena. However, not all
such representations reflect properties observed in human semantic
networks. Here, we evaluate the psychological plausibility of two
distributional semantic models widely used in natural language
processing: word2vec and GloVe. We use these models to construct
directed and undirected semantic networks and compare them to
networks of human association norms using a set of graph-theoretic
analyses. Our results show that all such networks display
small-world characteristics, while only undirected networks show
similar degree distributions to those in the human semantic
network. Directed networks also exhibit a hierarchical organization
that is reminiscent of the human semantic network.},
issn = {CTN-TR-20180824-012},
author = {Kaji\'c, Ivana and Eliasmith, Chris},
doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.25289.60004},
url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327209035_Evaluating_the_psychological_plausibility_of_word2vec_and_GloVe_distributional_semantic_models},
pdf = {/files/publications/kajic.2018.pdf}
}