Title
Concept Representation by Learning Explicit and Implicit Concept Couplings
Abstract
Generating the precise semantic representation of a word or concept is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Recent studies which incorporate semantic knowledge into word embedding have shown their potential in improving the semantic representation of a concept. However, existing approaches only achieved limited performance improvement as they usually 1) model a word's semantics from some explicit aspects while ignoring the intrinsic aspects of the word, 2) treat semantic knowledge as a supplement of word embeddings, and 3) consider partial relations between concepts while ignoring rich coupling relations between them, such as explicit concept co-occurrences in descriptive texts in a corpus as well as concept hyperlink relations in a knowledge network, and implicit couplings between concept co-occurrences and hyperlinks. In human consciousness, a concept is always associated with various couplings that exist within/between descriptive texts and knowledge networks, which inspires us to capture as many concept couplings as possible for building a more informative concept representation. We thus propose a neural coupled concept representation (CoupledCR) framework and its instantiation: a coupled concept embedding (CCE) model. CCE first learns two types of explicit couplings that are based on concept co-occurrences and hyperlink relations, respectively, and then learns a type of high-level implicit couplings between these two types of explicit couplings for better concept representation. Extensive experimental results on six real-world datasets show that CCE significantly outperforms eight state-of-the-art word embeddings and semantic representation methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/MIS.2020.3021188
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Concept Representation,Coupling Learning,non-IID Learning,Representation Learning,Word Similarity
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1541-1672
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenpeng Lu1156.06
Yuteng Zhang240.77
Shoujin Wang36513.10
Heyan Huang417361.47
Qian Liu54620.95
Sheng Luo630.42