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In recent years, protein-text models have gained significant attention for their potential in protein generation and understanding. Current approaches focus on integrating protein-related knowledge into large language models through…

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We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

While Word2Vec represents words (in text) as vectors carrying semantic information, audio Word2Vec was shown to be able to represent signal segments of spoken words as vectors carrying phonetic structure information. Audio Word2Vec can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yu-Hsuan Wang , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

We explore semantic correspondence estimation through the lens of unsupervised learning. We thoroughly evaluate several recently proposed unsupervised methods across multiple challenging datasets using a standardized evaluation protocol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mehmet Aygün , Oisin Mac Aodha

In the majority of the existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) research, the answers consist of short, often single words, as per instructions given to the annotators during dataset construction. This study envisions a VQA task for natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Kohei Uehara , Tatsuya Harada

This paper presents a model-based, unsupervised algorithm for recovering word boundaries in a natural-language text from which they have been deleted. The algorithm is derived from a probability model of the source that generated the text.…

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There is considerable interest in predicting the pathogenicity of protein variants in human genes. Due to the sparsity of high quality labels, recent approaches turn to \textit{unsupervised} learning, using Multiple Sequence Alignments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Allan Zhou , Nicholas C. Landolfi , Daniel C. O'Neill

Existing methods for CWS usually rely on a large number of labeled sentences to train word segmentation models, which are expensive and time-consuming to annotate. Luckily, the unlabeled data is usually easy to collect and many high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Junxin Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

In settings where only unlabelled speech data is available, speech technology needs to be developed without transcriptions, pronunciation dictionaries, or language modelling text. A similar problem is faced when modelling infant language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Herman Kamper , Aren Jansen , Sharon Goldwater

We propose a novel unsupervised keyphrase extraction approach that filters candidate keywords using outlier detection. It starts by training word embeddings on the target document to capture semantic regularities among the words. It then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Eirini Papagiannopoulou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Solving text classification in a weakly supervised manner is important for real-world applications where human annotations are scarce. In this paper, we propose to query a masked language model with cloze style prompts to obtain supervision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ziqian Zeng , Weimin Ni , Tianqing Fang , Xiang Li , Xinran Zhao , Yangqiu Song

Previous traditional approaches to unsupervised Chinese word segmentation (CWS) can be roughly classified into discriminative and generative models. The former uses the carefully designed goodness measures for candidate segmentation, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Zhiqing Sun , Zhi-Hong Deng

We look at the long-standing problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like segments and clustering these into a lexicon. Several previous methods use a scoring model coupled with dynamic programming to find an optimal segmentation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Simon Malan , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

Machine learning models have found numerous successful applications in computational drug discovery. A large body of these models represents molecules as sequences since molecular sequences are easily available, simple, and informative. The…

Understanding protein sequences is vital and urgent for biology, healthcare, and medicine. Labeling approaches are expensive yet time-consuming, while the amount of unlabeled data is increasing quite faster than that of the labeled data due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Liang He , Shizhuo Zhang , Lijun Wu , Huanhuan Xia , Fusong Ju , He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Yingce Xia , Jianwei Zhu , Pan Deng , Bin Shao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP) demonstrate that large-scale, self-supervised pre-training can be extremely beneficial for downstream tasks. These ideas have been adapted to other domains, including the analysis of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Matthew B. A. McDermott , Brendan Yap , Harry Hsu , Di Jin , Peter Szolovits

As a cornerstone in language modeling, tokenization involves segmenting text inputs into pre-defined atomic units. Conventional statistical tokenizers often disrupt constituent boundaries within words, thereby corrupting semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Qingyang Zhu , Xiang Hu , Pengyu Ji , Wei Wu , Kewei Tu

In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised approach for Speech Segmentation, which builds on previously researched approaches, e.g., Speaker Diarization, while being applicable to an inclusive set of acoustic-semantic distinctions, paving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Avishai Elmakies , Omri Abend , Yossi Adi

Spoken term discovery from untranscribed speech audio could be achieved via a two-stage process. In the first stage, the unlabelled speech is decoded into a sequence of subword units that are learned and modelled in an unsupervised manner.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Man-Ling Sung , Tan Lee

Recent work on unsupervised speech segmentation has used self-supervised models with phone and word segmentation modules that are trained jointly. This paper instead revisits an older approach to word segmentation: bottom-up phone-like unit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Herman Kamper