CASE: Context-Aware Semantic Expansion

Authors

  • Jialong Han Amazon
  • Aixin Sun Nanyang Technological University
  • Haisong Zhang Tencent AI Lab
  • Chenliang Li Wuhan University
  • Shuming Shi Tencent AI Lab

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6293

Abstract

In this paper, we define and study a new task called Context-Aware Semantic Expansion (CASE). Given a seed term in a sentential context, we aim to suggest other terms that well fit the context as the seed. CASE has many interesting applications such as query suggestion, computer-assisted writing, and word sense disambiguation, to name a few. Previous explorations, if any, only involve some similar tasks, and all require human annotations for evaluation. In this study, we demonstrate that annotations for this task can be harvested at scale from existing corpora, in a fully automatic manner. On a dataset of 1.8 million sentences thus derived, we propose a network architecture that encodes the context and seed term separately before suggesting alternative terms. The context encoder in this architecture can be easily extended by incorporating seed-aware attention. Our experiments demonstrate that competitive results are achieved with appropriate choices of context encoder and attention scoring function.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Han, J., Sun, A., Zhang, H., Li, C., & Shi, S. (2020). CASE: Context-Aware Semantic Expansion. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(05), 7871-7878. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6293

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing