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Word embeddings for Latvian natural language processing tools

  • Arturs Znotiņš*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Latvia

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Abstract

Word embeddings or distributed representations of words in a low dimensional vector space have been shown to capture both syntactic and semantic word relationships. Recently, multiple methods have been proposed to learn good word vector representations from very large text corpora effectively. Such word representations have been used to improve performance in a variety of natural language processing tasks. This work compares multiple methods to learn word embeddings for Latvian language and applies them to part of speech tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing tasks achieving state-of-the-art results for Latvian without resorting to any hand crafted and language specific features or resources such as gazetteers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Conference, Baltic HLT 2016
EditorsInguna Skadina, Roberts Rozis
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages167-173
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781614997009
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective, Baltic HLT 2016 - Riga, Latvia
Duration: 6 Oct 20167 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume289
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective, Baltic HLT 2016
Country/TerritoryLatvia
CityRiga
Period6/10/167/10/16

Keywords

  • Information extraction
  • Word embeddings
  • Word2vec

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