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The meaning of a word often varies depending on its usage in different domains. The standard word embedding models struggle to represent this variation, as they learn a single global representation for a word. We propose a method to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Lahari Poddar , Gyorgy Szarvas , Lea Frermann

Word embeddings have been widely used in sentiment classification because of their efficacy for semantic representations of words. Given reviews from different domains, some existing methods for word embeddings exploit sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bei Shi , Zihao Fu , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

The recent tremendous success of unsupervised word embeddings in a multitude of applications raises the obvious question if similar methods could be derived to improve embeddings (i.e. semantic representations) of word sequences as well. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Matteo Pagliardini , Prakhar Gupta , Martin Jaggi

Word embeddings predict a word from its neighbours by learning small, dense embedding vectors. In practice, this prediction corresponds to a semantic score given to the predicted word (or term weight). We present a novel model that, given a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Stephen Alstrup , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

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

Embedding words in vector space is a fundamental first step in state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP). Typical NLP solutions employ pre-defined vector representations to improve generalization by co-locating similar words in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Bimal Bhattarai , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Lei Jiao , Rohan Yadav , Jivitesh Sharma

In many modern day systems such as information extraction and knowledge management agents, ontologies play a vital role in maintaining the concept hierarchies of the selected domain. However, ontology population has become a problematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Vindula Jayawardana , Dimuthu Lakmal , Nisansa de Silva , Amal Shehan Perera , Keet Sugathadasa , Buddhi Ayesha , Madhavi Perera

Distributional semantics models derive word space from linguistic items in context. Meaning is obtained by defining a distance measure between vectors corresponding to lexical entities. Such vectors present several problems. In this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Jakub Dutkiewicz , Czesław Jędrzejek

Word-embeddings are vital components of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and have been extensively explored. However, they consume a lot of memory which poses a challenge for edge deployment. Embedding matrices, typically, contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Vasileios Lioutas , Ahmad Rashid , Krtin Kumar , Md Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Word embeddings are reliable feature representations of words used to obtain high quality results for various NLP applications. Uncontextualized word embeddings are used in many NLP tasks today, especially in resource-limited settings where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Kian Kenyon-Dean , Edward Newell , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

We consider probabilistic topic models and more recent word embedding techniques from a perspective of learning hidden semantic representations. Inspired by a striking similarity of the two approaches, we merge them and learn probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Anna Potapenko , Artem Popov , Konstantin Vorontsov

Unstructured text provides decision-makers with a rich data source in many domains, ranging from product reviews in retail to nursing notes in healthcare. To leverage this information, words are typically translated into word embeddings --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Kan Xu , Xuanyi Zhao , Hamsa Bastani , Osbert Bastani

In NLP, text language models based on words or subwords are known to outperform their character-based counterparts. Yet, in the speech community, the standard input of spoken LMs are 20ms or 40ms-long discrete units (shorter than a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Robin Algayres , Yossi Adi , Tu Anh Nguyen , Jade Copet , Gabriel Synnaeve , Benoit Sagot , Emmanuel Dupoux

We approach the problem of generalizing pre-trained word embeddings beyond fixed-size vocabularies without using additional contextual information. We propose a subword-level word vector generation model that views words as bags of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jinman Zhao , Sidharth Mudgal , Yingyu Liang

We present a probabilistic language model for time-stamped text data which tracks the semantic evolution of individual words over time. The model represents words and contexts by latent trajectories in an embedding space. At each moment in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-19 Robert Bamler , Stephan Mandt

In this paper, we tackle the task of definition modeling, where the goal is to learn to generate definitions of words and phrases. Existing approaches for this task are discriminative, combining distributional and lexical semantics in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Machel Reid , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yutaka Matsuo

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most popular compression methods that approximate a target matrix with smaller matrices. However, standard SVD treats the parameters within the matrix with equal importance, which is a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ting Hua , Yen-Chang Hsu , Felicity Wang , Qian Lou , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

There is a lot of research interest in encoding variable length sentences into fixed length vectors, in a way that preserves the sentence meanings. Two common methods include representations based on averaging word vectors, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Yossi Adi , Einat Kermany , Yonatan Belinkov , Ofer Lavi , Yoav Goldberg

The best-performing approaches for scholarly document quality prediction are based on embedding models. In addition to their performance when used in classifiers, embedding models can also provide predictions even for words that were not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Lucie Dvorackova , Marcin P. Joachimiak , Michal Cerny , Adriana Kubecova , Vilem Sklenak , Tomas Kliegr

Word embedding is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique that automatically maps words from a vocabulary to vectors of real numbers in an embedding space. It has been widely used in recent years to boost the performance of a vari-ety…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Arpita Roy , Youngja Park , SHimei Pan