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Texts and their translations are a rich linguistic resource that can be used to train and test statistics-based Machine Translation systems and many other applications. In this paper, we present a working system that can identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bruno Pouliquen , Ralf Steinberger , Camelia Ignat

Argument search aims at identifying arguments in natural language texts. In the past, this task has been addressed by a combination of keyword search and argument identification on the sentence- or document-level. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Michael Färber , Anna Steyer

We introduce an open-domain topic classification system that accepts user-defined taxonomy in real time. Users will be able to classify a text snippet with respect to any candidate labels they want, and get instant response from our web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Hantian Ding , Jinrui Yang , Yuqian Deng , Hongming Zhang , Dan Roth

The semantic analysis of documents is a domain of intense research at present. The works in this domain can take several directions and touch several levels of granularity. In the present work we are exactly interested in the thematic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Anja Habacha Chabi , Ferihane Kboubi , Mohamed Ben Ahmed

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code given a natural language query. While related to other information retrieval tasks, it requires bridging the gap between the language used in code (often abbreviated and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hamel Husain , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Tiferet Gazit , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

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In recent years, semantic similarity measure has a great interest in Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Several similarity measures have been developed, being given the existence of a structured knowledge representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Thabet Slimani

In recent years, predicting the user's next request in web navigation has received much attention. An information source to be used for dealing with such problem is the left information by the previous web users stored at the web access log…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Heidar Mamosian , Amir Masoud Rahmani , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfouli

Runtime verification is an effective automated method for specification-based offline testing and analysis as well as online monitoring of complex systems. The specification language is often a variant of regular expressions or a popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ramy Medhat , Yogi Joshi , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Crawling parallel texts -- texts that are mutual translations -- from the Internet is usually done following a brute-force approach: documents are massively downloaded in an unguided process, and only a fraction of them end up leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Cristian García-Romero , Miquel Esplà-Gomis , Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

AI assistants can now carry out tasks for users by directly interacting with website UIs. Current semantic parsing and slot-filling techniques cannot flexibly adapt to many different websites without being constantly re-trained. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Sahisnu Mazumder , Oriana Riva

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

Computerized document classification already orders the news articles that Apple's "News" app or Google's "personalized search" feature groups together to match a reader's interests. The invisible and therefore illegible decisions that go…

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Automatic and accurate classification of items enables numerous downstream applications in many domains. These applications can range from faceted browsing of items to product recommendations and big data analytics. In the online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yun Zhu , Faizan Javed , Ozgur Ozturk

Common difficulties like the cold-start problem and a lack of sufficient information about users due to their limited interactions have been major challenges for most recommender systems (RS). To overcome these challenges and many similar…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Khalifeh AlJadda , Mohammed Korayem , Camilo Ortiz , Chris Russell , David Bernal , Lamar Payson , Scott Brown , Trey Grainger

Information content (IC) based measures for finding semantic similarity is gaining preferences day by day. Semantics of concepts can be highly characterized by information theory. The conventional way for calculating IC is based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Abhijit Adhikari , Shivang Singh , Deepjyoti Mondal , Biswanath Dutta , Animesh Dutta

Applications such as textual entailment, plagiarism detection or document clustering rely on the notion of semantic similarity, and are usually approached with dimension reduction techniques like LDA or with embedding-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Lluís Padró

In regions that practice common law, relevant historical cases are essential references for sentencing. To help legal practitioners find previous judgement easier, this paper aims to label each court judgement by some tags. These tags are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yuchen Liu

Clinical trial eligibility matching is a critical yet often labor-intensive and error-prone step in medical research, as it ensures that participants meet precise criteria for safe and reliable study outcomes. Recent advances in Natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Muhammad Talha Sharif , Abdul Rehman

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) ranks passages by semantic similarity to the input, implicitly assuming that semantic similarity is a reliable indication of applicability in downstream tasks. This assumption breaks down when task…

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