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On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed. This seems like something that has been done before, an
by ggggtez 8y ago
On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed.
This seems like something that has been done before, and the fact the paper has no references indicates to me that the author maybe didn't do background research. While [0] is different, I could have sworn I've seen a paper which discussed creating puns in this fashion.
[0] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614
- gwern 8y agoMaybe you saw https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.html https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... a year or two ago which does something similar in generating rhyming definitions, also using a word2vec approach.
- Jack000 8y agofasttext and word2vec only encode contextual similarity, they're not meant to generate synonyms.
- ggggtez 8y agoSo, you agree with me then. You can't say "What do you call a sleepy cat? A /grumbea-gle/ (grumpy-beagle)!" It's a portmanteau, sure, but it is not really even close to the input. Using word2vec here is probably wrong, or should have different pruning for word variance. It's a flaw of the technique and choices of the author.
- gwern 8y ago> On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed. 'It doesn't matter whether a cat has floppy ears or yellow fur so long as it catches mice.'
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoPerhaps it's thinking in Ron Swanson terms: "Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are useless."