English
Related papers

Related papers: Word Embeddings for the Construction Domain

200 papers

In the new era of internet systems and applications, a concept of detecting distinguished topics from huge amounts of text has gained a lot of attention. These methods use representation of text in a numerical format -- called embeddings --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Danial Toufani-Movaghar , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi

Since word embeddings have been the most popular input for many NLP tasks, evaluating their quality is of critical importance. Most research efforts are focusing on English word embeddings. This paper addresses the problem of constructing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Stamatis Outsios , Christos Karatsalos , Konstantinos Skianis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

The focus of past machine learning research for Reading Comprehension tasks has been primarily on the design of novel deep learning architectures. Here we show that seemingly minor choices made on (1) the use of pre-trained word embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Bhuwan Dhingra , Hanxiao Liu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

While researchers often study message features like moral content in text, such as party manifestos and social media, their quantification remains a challenge. Conventional human coding struggles with scalability and intercoder reliability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zening Duan , Anqi Shao , Yicheng Hu , Heysung Lee , Xining Liao , Yoo Ji Suh , Jisoo Kim , Kai-Cheng Yang , Kaiping Chen , Sijia Yang

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

The relationship between words in a sentence often tells us more about the underlying semantic content of a document than its actual words, individually. In this work, we propose two novel algorithms, called Flexible Lexical Chain II and…

Word embeddings typically represent different meanings of a word in a single conflated vector. Empirical analysis of embeddings of ambiguous words is currently limited by the small size of manually annotated resources and by the fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Katharina Kann , Timothy J. Hazen , Eneko Agirre , Hinrich Schütze

Word embeddings are a powerful approach for analyzing language and have been widely popular in numerous tasks in information retrieval and text mining. Training embeddings over huge corpora is computationally expensive because the input is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Avishek Anand , Megha Khosla , Jaspreet Singh , Jan-Hendrik Zab , Zijian Zhang

We introduce categorical modularity, a novel low-resource intrinsic metric to evaluate word embedding quality. Categorical modularity is a graph modularity metric based on the $k$-nearest neighbor graph constructed with embedding vectors of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sílvia Casacuberta , Karina Halevy , Damián E. Blasi

Word embedding is a powerful tool in natural language processing. In this paper we consider the problem of word embedding composition \--- given vector representations of two words, compute a vector for the entire phrase. We give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Abraham Frandsen , Rong Ge

We present models for embedding words in the context of surrounding words. Such models, which we refer to as token embeddings, represent the characteristics of a word that are specific to a given context, such as word sense, syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Lifu Tu , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

With Company2Vec, the paper proposes a novel application in representation learning. The model analyzes business activities from unstructured company website data using Word2Vec and dimensionality reduction. Company2Vec maintains semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Christopher Gerling

Learning word embeddings has received a significant amount of attention recently. Often, word embeddings are learned in an unsupervised manner from a large collection of text. The genre of the text typically plays an important role in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Wei Yang , Wei Lu , Vincent W. Zheng

Word2Vec (W2V) and GloVe are popular, fast and efficient word embedding algorithms. Their embeddings are widely used and perform well on a variety of natural language processing tasks. Moreover, W2V has recently been adopted in the field of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Carl Allen , Ivana Balažević , Timothy Hospedales

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

Pitch accent detection often makes use of both acoustic and lexical features based on the fact that pitch accents tend to correlate with certain words. In this paper, we extend a pitch accent detector that involves a convolutional neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Sabrina Stehwien , Ngoc Thang Vu , Antje Schweitzer

Text classification, as the task consisting in assigning categories to textual instances, is a very common task in information science. Methods learning distributed representations of words, such as word embeddings, have become popular in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Arkaitz Zubiaga

Efficient representation of text documents is an important building block in many NLP tasks. Research on long text categorization has shown that simple weighted averaging of word vectors for sentence representation often outperforms more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vivek Gupta , Ankit Saw , Pegah Nokhiz , Harshit Gupta , Partha Talukdar

Sentence embeddings encode natural language sentences as low-dimensional dense vectors. A great deal of effort has been put into using sentence embeddings to improve several important natural language processing tasks. Relation extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexander Kalinowski , Yuan An

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