Structural-fitting word vectors to linguistic ontology for semantic relatedness measurement

With the aid of recently proposed word embedding algorithms, the study of semantic relatedness has progressed and advanced rapidly. In this research, we propose a novel structural-fitting method that utilizes the linguistic ontology into vector space representations. The ontological information is applied in two ways. The fine2coarse approach refines the word vectors from fine-grained to coarse-grained terms1 (word types), while the coarse2fine approach refines the word vectors from coarsegrained to fine-grained terms. In the experiments, we show that our proposed methods outperform previous approaches in seven publicly available benchmark datasets. ? 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.