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Autoregressive language models typically use temperature parameter at inference to shape the probability distribution and control the randomness of the text generated. After the text was generated, this parameter can be estimated using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy

This research introduces a novel psychometric method for analyzing textual data using large language models. By leveraging contextual embeddings to create contextual scores, we transform textual data into response data suitable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jinsong Chen

In the Humanities and Social Sciences, there is increasing interest in approaches to information extraction, prediction, intelligent linkage, and dimension reduction applicable to large text corpora. With approaches in these fields being…

Applications · Statistics 2019-04-16 Vanessa Glenny , Jonathan Tuke , Nigel Bean , Lewis Mitchell

Text analysis is an interesting research area in data science and has various applications, such as in artificial intelligence, biomedical research, and engineering. We review popular methods for text analysis, ranging from topic modeling…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-08 Zheng Tracy Ke , Pengsheng Ji , Jiashun Jin , Wanshan Li

Various text analysis techniques exist, which attempt to uncover unstructured information from text. In this work, we explore using statistical dependence measures for textual classification, representing text as word vectors. Student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Samuel Cunningham-Nelson , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Wageeh Boles

Human and model-generated texts can be distinguished by examining the magnitude of likelihood in language. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult as language model's capabilities of generating human-like texts keep evolving. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yang Xu , Yu Wang , Hao An , Zhichen Liu , Yongyuan Li

We propose to model the text classification process as a sequential decision process. In this process, an agent learns to classify documents into topics while reading the document sentences sequentially and learns to stop as soon as enough…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

In recent years, word embeddings have been widely used to measure biases in texts. Even if they have proven to be effective in detecting a wide variety of biases, metrics based on word embeddings lack transparency and interpretability. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Francisco Valentini , Germán Rosati , Damián Blasi , Diego Fernandez Slezak , Edgar Altszyler

We address the problem of how to "obfuscate" texts by removing stylistic clues which can identify authorship, whilst preserving (as much as possible) the content of the text. In this paper we combine ideas from "generalised differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Natasha Fernandes , Mark Dras , Annabelle McIver

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav , Aditi Sharan

In many scenarios, humans prefer a text-based representation of quantitative data over numerical, tabular, or graphical representations. The attractiveness of textual summaries for complex data has inspired research on data-to-text systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Pegah Jandaghi , Jay Pujara

Every day media generate large amounts of text. An unbiased view on media reports requires an understanding of the political bias of media content. Assistive technology for estimating the political bias of texts can be helpful in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Felix Biessmann

In this study, we examined the possibility to extract personality traits from a text. We created an extensive dataset by having experts annotate personality traits in a large number of texts from multiple online sources. From these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Nazar Akrami , Johan Fernquist , Tim Isbister , Lisa Kaati , Björn Pelzer

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of complex documents and texts that require a deeper understanding of machine learning methods to be able to accurately classify texts in many applications. Many machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Kamran Kowsari , Kiana Jafari Meimandi , Mojtaba Heidarysafa , Sanjana Mendu , Laura E. Barnes , Donald E. Brown

A pedagogical derivation of statistical mechanics from quantum mechanics is provided, by means of open quantum systems. Besides, a new definition of Boltzmann entropy for a quantum closed system is also given to count microstates in a way…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-08 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen

Considering that words with different characteristic in the text have different importance for classification, grouping them together separately can strengthen the semantic expression of each part. Thus we propose a new text representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xiaoye Tan , Rui Yan , Chongyang Tao , Mingrui Wu

Emotion can be expressed in many ways that can be seen such as facial expression and gestures, speech and by written text. Emotion Detection in text documents is essentially a content - based classification problem involving concepts from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Shiv Naresh Shivhare , Saritha Khethawat

A major challenge in the field of Text Generation is evaluation: Human evaluations are cost-intensive, and automated metrics often display considerable disagreement with human judgments. In this paper, we propose a statistical model of Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Deriu , Pius von Däniken , Don Tuggener , Mark Cieliebak

New text as data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to inductively discover measures that are useful for testing social science theories of interest from large collections of text. We introduce a conceptual framework for making…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-08 Naoki Egami , Christian J. Fong , Justin Grimmer , Margaret E. Roberts , Brandon M. Stewart

Texts exhibit considerable stylistic variation. This paper reports an experiment where a corpus of documents (N= 75 000) is analyzed using various simple stylistic metrics. A subset (n = 1000) of the corpus has been previously assessed to…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Jussi Karlgren