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How Contextual are Contextualized Word Representations? Comparing the Geometry of BERT, ELMo, and GPT-2 Embeddings
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Replacing static word embeddings with contextualized word representations has yielded significant improvements on many NLP tasks.However, just how contextual are the contextualized representations produced by models such as ELMo and BERT?Are there infinitely many context-specific representations for each word, or are words essentially assigned one of a finite number of word-sense representations?For one, we find that the contextualized representations of all words are not isotropic in any layer of the contextualizing model.While representations of the same word in different contexts still have a greater cosine similarity than those of two different words, this self-similarity is much lower in upper layers.This suggests that upper layers of contextualizing models produce more context-specific representations, much like how upper layers of LSTMs produce more task-specific representations.In all layers of ELMo, BERT, and GPT-2, on average, less than 5% of the variance in a word's contextualized representations can be explained by a static embedding for that word, providing some justification for the success of contextualized representations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ethayarajh, K.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ethayarajh, Kawin
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 55-65
- OpenAlex
- W2971569798
- Cited by
- 841
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 93 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 115 · 2023: 160 · 2022: 158 · 2021: 157 · 2020: 64
- FWCI
- 36.26
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Keywords
- contextualized word representations, word embeddings, BERT, ELMo, GPT-2, embedding geometry, cosine similarity, static embeddings, layer-wise analysis
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