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Vector Symbolic Architectures belong to a family of related cognitive modeling approaches that encode symbols and structures in high-dimensional vectors. Similar to human subjects, whose capacity to process and store information or concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Florian Mirus , Terrence C. Stewart , Jorg Conradt

Many machine learning algorithms require the input to be represented as a fixed-length feature vector. When it comes to texts, one of the most common fixed-length features is bag-of-words. Despite their popularity, bag-of-words features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Quoc V. Le , Tomas Mikolov

Distributed representations of words learned from text have proved to be successful in various natural language processing tasks in recent times. While some methods represent words as vectors computed from text using predictive model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Abhik Jana , Pawan Goyal

We present an introductory investigation into continuous-space vector representations of sentences. We acquire pairs of very similar sentences differing only by a small alterations (such as change of a noun, adding an adjective, noun or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Petra Barančíková , Ondřej Bojar

Word vector embeddings have been shown to contain and amplify biases in data they are extracted from. Consequently, many techniques have been proposed to identify, mitigate, and attenuate these biases in word representations. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Archit Rathore , Sunipa Dev , Jeff M. Phillips , Vivek Srikumar , Yan Zheng , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Junpeng Wang , Wei Zhang , Bei Wang

Conventional word embeddings represent words with fixed vectors, which are usually trained based on co-occurrence patterns among words. In doing so, however, the power of such representations is limited, where the same word might be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Hongming Zhang , Jiaxin Bai , Yan Song , Kun Xu , Changlong Yu , Yangqiu Song , Wilfred Ng , Dong Yu

Word representation has always been an important research area in the history of natural language processing (NLP). Understanding such complex text data is imperative, given that it is rich in information and can be used widely across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Usman Naseem , Imran Razzak , Shah Khalid Khan , Mukesh Prasad

In this article we give two different ways of representations of circular words. Representations with tuples are intended as a compact notation, while representations with trees give a way to easily process all conjugates of a word. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 László Hegedüs , Benedek Nagy

Embedding words in high-dimensional vector spaces has proven valuable in many natural language applications. In this work, we investigate whether similarly-trained embeddings of integers can capture concepts that are useful for mathematical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Maria Ryskina , Kevin Knight

We introduce a model for constructing vector representations of words by composing characters using bidirectional LSTMs. Relative to traditional word representation models that have independent vectors for each word type, our model requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Wang Ling , Tiago Luís , Luís Marujo , Ramón Fernandez Astudillo , Silvio Amir , Chris Dyer , Alan W. Black , Isabel Trancoso

The representation space of pretrained Language Models (LMs) encodes rich information about words and their relationships (e.g., similarity, hypernymy, polysemy) as well as abstract semantic notions (e.g., intensity). In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Qing Lyu , Marianna Apidianaki , Chris Callison-Burch

Word embeddings are widely used in Natural Language Processing, mainly due to their success in capturing semantic information from massive corpora. However, their creation process does not allow the different meanings of a word to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Massimiliano Mancini , Jose Camacho-Collados , Ignacio Iacobacci , Roberto Navigli

To represent real $m$-dimensional vectors, a positional vector system given by a non-singular matrix $M \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times m}$ and a digit set $\mathcal{D} \subset \mathbb{Z}^m$ is used. If $m = 1$, the system coincides with the well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Izabella Ingrid Farkas , Edita Pelantová , Milena Svobodová

Classification is a common AI problem, and vector search is a typical solution. This transforms a given body of text into a numerical representation, known as an embedding, and modern improvements to vector search focus on optimising speed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lee Harris

Vector-based word representations help countless Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks capture the language's semantic and syntactic regularities. In this paper, we present the characteristics of existing word embedding approaches and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Obaidullah Zaland , Muhammad Abulaish , Mohd. Fazil

Distributed word representations, or word vectors, have recently been applied to many tasks in natural language processing, leading to state-of-the-art performance. A key ingredient to the successful application of these representations is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Edouard Grave , Piotr Bojanowski , Prakhar Gupta , Armand Joulin , Tomas Mikolov

This introduction aims to tell the story of how we put words into computers. It is part of the story of the field of natural language processing (NLP), a branch of artificial intelligence. It targets a wide audience with a basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Noah A. Smith

In this work, we conduct a joint analysis of both Vector Space and Language Models for IR using the mathematical framework of Quantum Theory. We shed light on how both models allocate the space of density matrices. A density matrix is shown…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Alessandro Sordoni , Jian-Yun Nie

Dramatic advances in generative models have resulted in near photographic quality for artificially rendered faces, animals and other objects in the natural world. In spite of such advances, a higher level understanding of vision and imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Raphael Gontijo Lopes , David Ha , Douglas Eck , Jonathon Shlens

Vector representations of graphs and relational structures, whether hand-crafted feature vectors or learned representations, enable us to apply standard data analysis and machine learning techniques to the structures. A wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Martin Grohe