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As a fundamental task in natural language processing, word embedding converts each word into a representation in a vector space. A challenge with word embedding is that as the vocabulary grows, the vector space's dimension increases, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jintang Xue , Yun-Cheng Wang , Chengwei Wei , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Word embeddings are ubiquitous in NLP and information retrieval, but it is unclear what they represent when the word is polysemous. Here it is shown that multiple word senses reside in linear superposition within the word embedding and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Sanjeev Arora , Yuanzhi Li , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

Many models learn representations of knowledge graph data by exploiting its low-rank latent structure, encoding known relations between entities and enabling unknown facts to be inferred. To predict whether a relation holds between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Carl Allen , Ivana Balažević , Timothy Hospedales

Word embeddings are real-valued word representations able to capture lexical semantics and trained on natural language corpora. Models proposing these representations have gained popularity in the recent years, but the issue of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Amir Bakarov

Reasoning about implied relationships (e.g., paraphrastic, common sense, encyclopedic) between pairs of words is crucial for many cross-sentence inference problems. This paper proposes new methods for learning and using embeddings of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mandar Joshi , Eunsol Choi , Omer Levy , Daniel S. Weld , Luke Zettlemoyer

We investigate the hypothesis that word representations ought to incorporate both distributional and relational semantics. To this end, we employ the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), which flexibly optimizes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Daniel Fried , Kevin Duh

We investigate the hypothesis that word representations ought to incorporate both distributional and relational semantics. To this end, we employ the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), which flexibly optimizes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Daniel Fried , Kevin Duh

Acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) are vector representations such that different acoustic exemplars of the same word are projected nearby in the embedding space. In addition to their use in speech technology applications such as spoken term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Badr M. Abdullah , Dietrich Klakow

Distributional semantics provides multi-dimensional, graded, empirically induced word representations that successfully capture many aspects of meaning in natural languages, as shown in a large body of work in computational linguistics;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Gemma Boleda

Vector representations of natural language are ubiquitous in search applications. Recently, various methods based on contrastive learning have been proposed to learn textual representations from unlabelled data; by maximizing alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Sachin J. Chanchani , Ruihong Huang

This paper takes a step towards theoretical analysis of the relationship between word embeddings and context embeddings in models such as word2vec. We start from basic probabilistic assumptions on the nature of word vectors, context…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Zhenisbek Assylbekov , Rustem Takhanov

The pervasive use of distributional semantic models or word embeddings in a variety of research fields is due to their remarkable ability to represent the meanings of words for both practical application and cognitive modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Akira Utsumi

Representation learning is the foundation of machine reading comprehension and inference. In state-of-the-art models, character-level representations have been broadly adopted to alleviate the problem of effectively representing rare or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Kangwei Ling , Jiangtong Li , Zuchao Li , Shexia He , Guohong Fu

Understanding the temporal evolution of sets of vectors is a fundamental challenge across various domains, including ecology, crime analysis, and linguistics. For instance, ecosystem structures evolve due to interactions among plants,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Taichi Aida , Mamoru Komachi , Toshinobu Ogiso , Hiroya Takamura , Daichi Mochihashi

We propose two novel model architectures for computing continuous vector representations of words from very large data sets. The quality of these representations is measured in a word similarity task, and the results are compared to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Tomas Mikolov , Kai Chen , Greg Corrado , Jeffrey Dean

Word representations are created using analogy context-based statistics and lexical relations on words. Word representations are inputs for the learning models in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. However, to understand language,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Anupiya Nugaliyadde , Kok Wai Wong , Ferdous Sohel , Hong Xie

We propose a new kind of embedding for natural language text that deeply represents semantic meaning. Standard text embeddings use the outputs from hidden layers of a pretrained language model. In our method, we let a language model learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Distributed representations of words as real-valued vectors in a relatively low-dimensional space aim at extracting syntactic and semantic features from large text corpora. A recently introduced neural network, named word2vec (Mikolov et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Adriaan M. J. Schakel , Benjamin J. Wilson

Representation learning has recently been successfully used to create vector representations of entities in language learning, recommender systems and in similarity learning. Graph embeddings exploit the locality structure of a graph and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Shalin Shah , Venkataramana Kini

We provide a comparative study between neural word representations and traditional vector spaces based on co-occurrence counts, in a number of compositional tasks. We use three different semantic spaces and implement seven tensor-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Dmitrijs Milajevs , Dimitri Kartsaklis , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Matthew Purver