| Challenge: | Existing word embeddings capture a range of semantic relations relevant to the interpretation of lexical items, but domain-specific terms are difficult to evaluate because of a lack of statistical clues in the underlying corpus. |
| Approach: | They conduct intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations of both general and domain-specific embeddings and adapt embeddment enhancement methods to provide vector representations for infrequent and unseen terms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves both in the intrinsic evaluation and extrinsic evaluation of the embedding models and their representations of infrequent and unseen terms. |
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