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More data trumps smarter algorithms: comparing pointwise mutual information with latent semantic analysis.

Gabriel Recchia1, Michael N Jones

  • 1Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47406-7512, USA. grecchia@indiana.edu

Behavior Research Methods
|July 10, 2009
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Summary

Simple pointwise mutual information models trained on large text corpora show strong semantic similarity to human ratings, outperforming complex computational models. A tool is provided for efficient model building.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational linguistics
  • Cognitive science
  • Natural language processing

Background:

  • Computational models of lexical semantics generate word similarity measures from text.
  • These measures aid in experimental design and assessing cognitive plausibility.
  • Current models often face data limitations, despite human exposure to vast linguistic input.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a simple metric, pointwise mutual information (PMI), for semantic similarity.
  • To assess the impact of large-scale data on PMI's performance.
  • To compare PMI against more complex computational semantic models.

Main Methods:

  • Training a pointwise mutual information metric on extensive text corpora.
  • Controlling for potential confounding variables in previous evaluations.
  • Comparing model-generated semantic similarity with human semantic similarity ratings.

Main Results:

  • Pointwise mutual information demonstrates significant benefits from training on extremely large datasets.
  • The PMI metric showed a closer correlation with human semantic similarity ratings than several complex models.
  • A scalable tool for rapid model construction from large corpora was developed.

Conclusions:

  • Simple metrics like PMI can achieve high cognitive plausibility when trained on massive data.
  • Large-scale data is crucial for developing accurate computational models of semantic memory.
  • The developed tool facilitates efficient creation of scalable semantic models.