A Unified Learning Framework of Skip-Grams and Global Vectors

Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata


Abstract

Log-bilinear language models such as SkipGram and GloVe have been proven to capture high quality syntactic and semantic relationships between words in a vector space. We revisit the relationship between SkipGram and GloVe models from a machine learning viewpoint, and show that these two methods are easily merged into a unified form. Then, by using the unified form, we extract the factors of the configurations that they use differently. We also empirically investigate which factor is responsible for the performance difference often observed in widely examined word similarity and analogy tasks.