Crosslingual Neural Vector Conceptualization (NVC)

Applying NVC to aligned word vectors of English and Chinese.

Accompanying code for the paper:

@inproceedings{raithel_cross_nvc_2019,
  title = {Crosslingual Neural Vector Conceptualization},
  booktitle = {NLPCC Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence},
  author = {Raithel, Lisa and Schwarzenberg, Robert},
  year = {2019}
  }

Installation

Create and activate an environment with Python 3.6.

conda create --name CNVC python=3.6
source activate CNVC

After cloning the repository, install the requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Data

Word Vectors:

The current underlying word vectors were learned with the fastText model [2]. Please download the pre-trained word vectors for English and Chinese (or any other second language for that matter) to the data directory:

wget -P ~/cross_nvc/src/data/ "https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-aligned/wiki.en.align.vec"
wget -P ~/cross_nvc/src/data/ "https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-aligned/wiki.zh.align.vec"

Microsoft Concept Graph

For using the Microsoft Concept Graph (MCG) data from scratch, please download the data here:

wget -P ~/cross_nvc/src/data/ "https://concept.research.microsoft.com/Home/StartDownload"

The MCG data dump does only comprise concepts, instances and associated counts, no probabilities or REP values. These need to be calculated before training. Therefore, see the script utils/ms_concept_graph_scoring.py in the notebook which calculates all needed probabilities and writes the data to a TSV file.

This takes some time, therefore we recommend to download the already preprocessed data from here and unzip into

./src/data/

This dump includes

• the data from the MCG as TSV file with REP values (data-concept-instance-relations-with-rep.tsv)
• a JSON file of the same data, but filtered for instances that also occur in the fastText vocabulary (raw_data_dict_fasttext_maxlenFalse.json)
• the filtered data including only concepts that have at least 100 instance with a REP > -10 (filtered_data_i100_v-10_fasttext_maxlenFalse)
• Chinese translations of the English test dataset (translations_aligned)
• the test set on which we reported the scores in the paper (test_set.csv)

We recommend to use the preprocessed data input_data/raw_data_dict_fasttext_maxlenFalse.json which includes all concepts and instances with their corresponding REP values in a JSON file.

Run and Replicate Experiments with the Notebook

The jupyter notebook demo_cross_nvc.ipynb demonstrates how to use our (pre-)trained neural vector conceptualization (NVC) model to display the reported activation profiles.

Navigate to src/ and start the notebook:

jupyter notebook demo_cross_nvc.ipynb 

or

export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=DEVICE_NUM jupyter notebook demo_cross_nvc.ipynb

if you want to run it on GPU DEVICE_NUM.

You can run two versions of the notebook:

1. Use our pre-trained NVC model
2. Train a new model

Use the pre-trained model

If you run all cells of the notebook in the given order and without changing anything except the necessary file paths, our pre-trained cross-NVC model is applied to a given filtered dataset and the results are reported at the end of the notebook.

Train a new model

Follow the instructions in the notebook to train and evaluate a new model.

[1] A. Joulin, P. Bojanowski, T. Mikolov, H. Jegou, E. Grave, Loss in Translation: Learning Bilingual Word Mapping with a Retrieval Criterion [2] P. Bojanowski, E. Grave, A. Joulin, T. Mikolov, Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information