A bilingual approach to specialised adjectives through word embeddings in the karstology domain

Abstract

We present an experiment in extracting adjectives which express a specific semantic relation using word embeddings. The results of the experiment are then thoroughly analysed and categorised into groups of adjectives exhibiting formal or semantic similarity. The experiment and analysis are performed for English and Croatian in the domain of karstology using data sets and methods developed in the TermFrame project. The main original contributions of the article are twofold: firstly, proposing a new and promising method of extracting semantically related words relevant for terminology, and secondly, providing a detailed evaluation of the output so that we gain a better understanding of the domain-specific semantic structures on the one hand and the types of similarities extracted by word embeddings on the other.