Paper ID: 2210.09972

On the Information Content of Predictions in Word Analogy Tests

Jugurta Montalvão

An approach is proposed to quantify, in bits of information, the actual relevance of analogies in analogy tests. The main component of this approach is a softaccuracy estimator that also yields entropy estimates with compensated biases. Experimental results obtained with pre-trained GloVe 300-D vectors and two public analogy test sets show that proximity hints are much more relevant than analogies in analogy tests, from an information content perspective. Accordingly, a simple word embedding model is used to predict that analogies carry about one bit of information, which is experimentally corroborated.

Submitted: Oct 18, 2022