Modeling Sense Structure in Word Usage Graphs with the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

1 code implementation • Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 2021 • Dominik Schlechtweg, Enrique Castaneda, Jonas Kuhn, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We suggest to model human-annotated Word Usage Graphs capturing fine-grained semantic proximity distinctions between word uses with a Bayesian formulation of the Weighted Stochastic Block Model, a generative model for random graphs popular in biology, physics and social sciences.

Stochastic Block Model