arXiv Open Access 2023

Evaluation of Word Embeddings for the Social Sciences

Ricardo Schiffers Dagmar Kern Daniel Hienert
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Word embeddings are an essential instrument in many NLP tasks. Most available resources are trained on general language from Web corpora or Wikipedia dumps. However, word embeddings for domain-specific language are rare, in particular for the social science domain. Therefore, in this work, we describe the creation and evaluation of word embedding models based on 37,604 open-access social science research papers. In the evaluation, we compare domain-specific and general language models for (i) language coverage, (ii) diversity, and (iii) semantic relationships. We found that the created domain-specific model, even with a relatively small vocabulary size, covers a large part of social science concepts, their neighborhoods are diverse in comparison to more general models. Across all relation types, we found a more extensive coverage of semantic relationships.

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Ricardo Schiffers

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Dagmar Kern

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Daniel Hienert

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Schiffers, R., Kern, D., Hienert, D. (2023). Evaluation of Word Embeddings for the Social Sciences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06174

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