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Detecting semantic similarities between sentences is still a challenge today due to the ambiguity of natural languages. In this work, we propose a simple approach to identifying semantically similar questions by combining the strengths of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yoan Dimitrov

Do word embeddings converge to learn similar things over different initializations? How repeatable are experiments with word embeddings? Are all word embedding techniques equally reliable? In this paper we propose evaluating methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Yingtao Tian , Vivek Kulkarni , Bryan Perozzi , Steven Skiena

Self-supervised word embedding algorithms such as word2vec provide a minimal setting for studying representation learning in language modeling. We examine the quartic Taylor approximation of the word2vec loss around the origin, and we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Dhruva Karkada , James B. Simon , Yasaman Bahri , Michael R. DeWeese

While important properties of word vector representations have been studied extensively, far less is known about the properties of sentence vector representations. Word vectors are often evaluated by assessing to what degree they exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Xunjie Zhu , Gerard de Melo

Recent research has shown that static word embeddings can encode word frequency information. However, little has been studied about this phenomenon and its effects on downstream tasks. In the present work, we systematically study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Francisco Valentini , Juan Cruz Sosa , Diego Fernandez Slezak , Edgar Altszyler

This project intends to study the image representation based on attention mechanism and multimodal data. By adding multiple pattern layers to the attribute model, the semantic and hidden layers of image content are integrated. The word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Dan Sun , Yaxin Liang , Yining Yang , Yuhan Ma , Qishi Zhan , Erdi Gao

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

Numerous works use word embedding-based metrics to quantify societal biases and stereotypes in texts. Recent studies have found that word embeddings can capture semantic similarity but may be affected by word frequency. In this work we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Francisco Valentini , Germán Rosati , Diego Fernandez Slezak , Edgar Altszyler

It has been shown that word embeddings derived from large corpora tend to incorporate biases present in their training data. Various methods for mitigating these biases have been proposed, but recent work has demonstrated that these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hailey Joren , David Alvarez-Melis

End-to-end acoustic-to-word speech recognition models have recently gained popularity because they are easy to train, scale well to large amounts of training data, and do not require a lexicon. In addition, word models may also be easier to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shruti Palaskar , Vikas Raunak , Florian Metze

Word embedding or vector representation of word holds syntactical and semantic characteristics of a word which can be an informative feature for any machine learning-based models of natural language processing. There are several deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Rifat Rahman

Applying the word2vec technique, commonly used in language modeling, to melodies, where notes are treated as words in sentences, enables the capture of pitch information. This study examines two datasets: 20 children's songs and an excerpt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Daniel Defays

With a simple architecture and the ability to learn meaningful word embeddings efficiently from texts containing billions of words, word2vec remains one of the most popular neural language models used today. However, as only a single…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-09 Franziska Horn

Co-occurrence statistics based word embedding techniques have proved to be very useful in extracting the semantic and syntactic representation of words as low dimensional continuous vectors. In this work, we discovered that dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Juexiao Zhang , Yubei Chen , Brian Cheung , Bruno A Olshausen

Co-occurrences between two words provide useful insights into the semantics of those words. Consequently, numerous prior work on word embedding learning have used co-occurrences between two words as the training signal for learning word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Danushka Bollegala , Yuichi Yoshida , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Representing words by vectors, or embeddings, enables computational reasoning and is foundational to automating natural language tasks. For example, if word embeddings of similar words contain similar values, word similarity can be readily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Carl Allen

The word embedding association test (WEAT) is an important method for measuring linguistic biases against social groups such as ethnic minorities in large text corpora. It does so by comparing the semantic relatedness of words prototypical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Austin van Loon , Salvatore Giorgi , Robb Willer , Johannes Eichstaedt

Word embedding methods revolve around learning continuous distributed vector representations of words with neural networks, which can capture semantic and/or syntactic cues, and in turn be used to induce similarity measures among words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Kuan-Yu Chen , Shih-Hung Liu , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

Word embedding models such as GloVe rely on co-occurrence statistics from a large corpus to learn vector representations of word meaning. These vectors have proven to capture surprisingly fine-grained semantic and syntactic information.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Shoaib Jameel , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. has led to a generated growing number of comments that contains users opinions. Sentiment analysis research deals with these comments to extract opinions which are positive or negative. Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Anwar Alnawas , Nursal ARICI