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Word embeddings are now a standard technique for inducing meaning representations for words. For getting good representations, it is important to take into account different senses of a word. In this paper, we propose a mixture model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Ashutosh Modi , Stefan Thater , Manfred Pinkal

Topic modeling is traditionally applied to word counts without accounting for the context in which words appear. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer contextualized word embeddings, which capture deeper meaning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Morgane Austern , Yuanchuan Guo , Zheng Tracy Ke , Tianle Liu

Topic Modeling is an approach used for automatic comprehension and classification of data in a variety of settings, and perhaps the canonical application is in uncovering thematic structure in a corpus of documents. A number of foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ankur Moitra

We investigate the integration of word embeddings as classification features in the setting of large scale text classification. Such representations have been used in a plethora of tasks, however their application in classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini

Embedded topic models are able to learn interpretable topics even with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. However, they generally hold the Euclidean embedding space assumption, leading to a basic limitation in capturing hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yishi Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Zhibin Duan , Mingyuan Zhou

We introduce Probabilistic FastText, a new model for word embeddings that can capture multiple word senses, sub-word structure, and uncertainty information. In particular, we represent each word with a Gaussian mixture density, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Ben Athiwaratkun , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Anima Anandkumar

Distributed word embeddings have shown superior performances in numerous Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, their performances vary significantly across different tasks, implying that the word embeddings learnt by those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Danushka Bollegala , Kohei Hayashi , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

There is an escalating need for methods to identify latent patterns in text data from many domains. We introduce a new method to identify topics in a corpus and represent documents as topic sequences. Discourse Atom Topic Modeling draws on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Alina Arseniev-Koehler , Susan D. Cochran , Vickie M. Mays , Kai-Wei Chang , Jacob Gates Foster

To be discoverable in an embedding-based search process, each part of a document should be reflected in its embedding representation. To quantify any potential reflection biases, we introduce a permutation-based evaluation framework. With…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elias Schuhmacher , Andrianos Michail , Juri Opitz , Rico Sennrich , Simon Clematide

Topic models provide a useful tool to organize and understand the structure of large corpora of text documents, in particular, to discover hidden thematic structure. Clustering documents from big unstructured corpora into topics is an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Olga Klopp , Maxim Panov , Suzanne Sigalla , Alexandre Tsybakov

The abundant sequential documents such as online archival, social media and news feeds are streamingly updated, where each chunk of documents is incorporated with smoothly evolving yet dependent topics. Such digital texts have attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jinjin Guo , Longbing Cao , Zhiguo Gong

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Capturing the compositional process which maps the meaning of words to that of documents is a central challenge for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. We introduce a model that is able to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Misha Denil , Alban Demiraj , Nal Kalchbrenner , Phil Blunsom , Nando de Freitas

We present a novel technique for learning semantic representations, which extends the distributional hypothesis to multilingual data and joint-space embeddings. Our models leverage parallel data and learn to strongly align the embeddings of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Karl Moritz Hermann , Phil Blunsom

We demonstrate the utility of a new methodological tool, neural-network word embedding models, for large-scale text analysis, revealing how these models produce richer insights into cultural associations and categories than possible with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Austin C. Kozlowski , Matt Taddy , James A. Evans

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

A currently successful approach to computational semantics is to represent words as embeddings in a machine-learned vector space. We present an ensemble method that combines embeddings produced by GloVe (Pennington et al., 2014) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Robyn Speer , Joshua Chin

Previous studies have demonstrated the empirical success of word embeddings in various applications. In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning distributed representations for text documents which many machine learning algorithms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Bin Bi , Hao Ma

We study the cosine similarity of sentence transformer embeddings and observe that they are well modeled by gamma mixtures. From a fixed corpus, we measure similarities between all document embeddings and a reference query embedding.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Kevin Player

Recent works on word representations mostly rely on predictive models. Distributed word representations (aka word embeddings) are trained to optimally predict the contexts in which the corresponding words tend to appear. Such models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Rémi Lebret , Ronan Collobert