text: While word embeddings have been shown to implicitly encode various forms of attributional knowledge, the extent to which they capture relational information is far more limited. In previous work, this limitation has been addressed by incorporating relational knowledge from external knowledge bases when learning the word embedding. Such strategies may not be optimal, however, as they are limited by the coverage of available resources and conflate similarity with other forms of relatedness. As an alternative, in this paper we propose to encode relational knowledge in a separate word embedding, which is aimed to be complementary to a given standard word embedding. This relational word embedding is still learned from co-occurrence statistics, and can thus be used even when no external knowledge base is available. Our analysis shows that relational word vectors do indeed capture information that is complementary to what is encoded in standard word embeddings.
  @cite_14: Despite the emergence and growth of numerous large knowledge graphs, many basic and important facts about our everyday world are not readily available on the Web. To address this, we present WebBrain, a new approach for harvesting commonsense knowledge that relies on joint learning from Web-scale data to fill gaps in the knowledge acquisition. We train a neural network model to learn relations based on large numbers of textual patterns found on the Web. At the same time, the model learns vector representations of general word semantics. This joint approach allows us to generalize beyond the explicitly extracted information. Experiments show that we can obtain representations of words that reflect their semantics, yet also allow us to capture conceptual relationships and commonsense knowledge.
summary: Our method differs in two important ways from these existing approaches. First, rather than relying on an external knowledge base, or other forms of supervision, as in e.g. @cite_14 , our method is completely unsupervised, as our only input consists of a text corpus. Second, whereas existing work has focused on methods for improving word embeddings, our aim is to learn vector representations that are to standard word embeddings.