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Most NLP tasks are based on large, well-organized corpus in general domain, while limited work has been done in specific domain due to the lack of qualified corpus and evaluation dataset. However domain-specific applications are widely needed nowadays. In this paper, we propose a fast and inexpensive, model-assisted method to train a high-quality distributional model from scattered, unconstructed web pages, which can capture knowledge from a specific domain. This approach does not require pre-organized corpus and much human help, and hence works on the specific domain which can’t afford the cost of artificially constructed corpus and complex training. We use Word2vec to assist in creating term set and evaluation dataset of embroidery domain. Next, we train a distributional model on filtered search results of term set, and conduct a task-specific tuning via two simple but practical evaluation metrics, word pairs similarity and in-domain terms’ coverage. Furthermore, our much-smaller models outperform the word embedding model trained on a large, general corpus in our task. In this work, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and hope it can serve as a reference for researchers who extract high-quality knowledge in specific domains.
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Lu, Y., Yu, S., Shi, M., Li, C. (2018). Extract Knowledge from Web Pages in a Specific Domain. In: Liu, W., Giunchiglia, F., Yang, B. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11061. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99365-2_10
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