Word-Embeddings Distinguish Denominal and Root-Derived Verbs in Semitic. (arXiv:2208.05721v1 [cs.CL])

Proponents of the Distributed Morphology framework have posited the existence
of two levels of morphological word formation: a lower one, leading to loose
input-output semantic relationships; and an upper one, leading to tight
input-output semantic relationships. In this work, we propose to test the
validity of this assumption in the context of Hebrew word embeddings. If the
two-level hypothesis is borne out, we expect state-of-the-art Hebrew word
embeddings to encode (1) a noun, (2) a denominal derived from it (via …

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