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In many modern day systems such as information extraction and knowledge management agents, ontologies play a vital role in maintaining the concept hierarchies of the selected domain. However, ontology population has become a problematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Vindula Jayawardana , Dimuthu Lakmal , Nisansa de Silva , Amal Shehan Perera , Keet Sugathadasa , Buddhi Ayesha , Madhavi Perera

Adding interpretability to word embeddings represents an area of active research in text representation. Recent work has explored thepotential of embedding words via so-called polar dimensions (e.g. good vs. bad, correct vs. wrong).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Jan Engler , Sandipan Sikdar , Marlene Lutz , Markus Strohmaier

Word embedding, which encodes words into vectors, is an important starting point in natural language processing and commonly used in many text-based machine learning tasks. However, in most current word embedding approaches, the similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Denis Sedov , Zhirong Yang

Cross-lingual word sense disambiguation (WSD) tackles the challenge of disambiguating ambiguous words across languages given context. The pre-trained BERT embedding model has been proven to be effective in extracting contextual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xingran Zhu

Most state-of-the-art approaches for named-entity recognition (NER) use semi supervised information in the form of word clusters and lexicons. Recently neural network-based language models have been explored, as they as a byproduct generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Alexandre Passos , Vineet Kumar , Andrew McCallum

This paper presents a significant improvement on the previous conference paper known as DefSent. The prior study seeks to improve sentence embeddings of language models by projecting definition sentences into the vector space of dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiaodong Liu

Vector-space models, from word embeddings to neural network parsers, have many advantages for NLP. But how to generalise from fixed-length word vectors to a vector space for arbitrary linguistic structures is still unclear. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Diana Nicoleta Popa , James Henderson

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

Given multiple source word embeddings learnt using diverse algorithms and lexical resources, meta word embedding learning methods attempt to learn more accurate and wide-coverage word embeddings. Prior work on meta-embedding has repeatedly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Danushka Bollegala

In this paper, we explore the usage of Word Embedding semantic resources for Information Retrieval (IR) task. This embedding, produced by a shallow neural network, have been shown to catch semantic similarities between words (Mikolov et…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jibril Frej , Jean-Pierre Chevallet , Didier Schwab

Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time, as a byproduct of human language evolution. By studying word evolution, we can infer social trends and language constructs over different periods of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Zijun Yao , Yifan Sun , Weicong Ding , Nikhil Rao , Hui Xiong

Models based on large-pretrained language models, such as S(entence)BERT, provide effective and efficient sentence embeddings that show high correlation to human similarity ratings, but lack interpretability. On the other hand, graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

The meaning of a word is closely linked to sociocultural factors that can change over time and location, resulting in corresponding meaning changes. Taking a global view of words and their meanings in a widely used language, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hongyu Gong , Suma Bhat , Pramod Viswanath

The distributed representations currently used are dense and uninterpretable, leading to interpretations that themselves are relative, overcomplete, and hard to interpret. We propose a method that transforms these word vectors into reduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Biraj Silwal

Text embeddings have become central to computational social science and psychology, enabling scalable measurement of meaning and mixed-method inference. Yet most representation learning is optimized and evaluated for prediction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hubert Plisiecki

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

Models based on the transformer architecture, such as BERT, have marked a crucial step forward in the field of Natural Language Processing. Importantly, they allow the creation of word embeddings that capture important semantic information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jacob Turton , David Vinson , Robert Elliott Smith

One of the most important problems in machine translation (MT) evaluation is to evaluate the similarity between translation hypotheses with different surface forms from the reference, especially at the segment level. We propose to use word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Junki Matsuo , Mamoru Komachi , Katsuhito Sudoh

Text embeddings are a fundamental component in many NLP tasks, including classification, regression, clustering, and semantic search. However, despite their ubiquitous application, challenges persist in interpreting embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Juri Opitz , Lucas Möller , Andrianos Michail , Sebastian Padó , Simon Clematide

Recently, implicit representation models, such as embedding or deep learning, have been successfully adopted to text classification task due to their outstanding performance. However, these approaches are limited to small- or moderate-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Kang-Min Kim , Aliyeva Dinara , Byung-Ju Choi , SangKeun Lee