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Euclidean word embedding models such as GloVe and Word2Vec have been shown to reflect human-like gender biases. In this paper, we extend the study of gender bias to the recently popularized hyperbolic word embeddings. We propose gyrocosine…

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Machine learning models are trained to find patterns in data. NLP models can inadvertently learn socially undesirable patterns when training on gender biased text. In this work, we propose a general framework that decomposes gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Emily Dinan , Angela Fan , Ledell Wu , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela , Adina Williams

Automated keyphrase extraction is a fundamental textual information processing task concerned with the selection of representative phrases from a document that summarize its content. This work presents a novel unsupervised method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Eirini Papagiannopoulou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

This article focuses on the study of Word Embedding, a feature-learning technique in Natural Language Processing that maps words or phrases to low-dimensional vectors. Beginning with the linguistic theories concerning contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xiaolei Lu , Bin Ni

Humans have entered the age of algorithms. Each minute, algorithms shape countless preferences from suggesting a product to a potential life partner. In the marketplace algorithms are trained to learn consumer preferences from customer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 A. Mishra , H. Mishra , S. Rathee

Word embeddings have been demonstrated to benefit NLP tasks impressively. Yet, there is room for improvement in the vector representations, because current word embeddings typically contain unnecessary information, i.e., noise. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Kim Anh Nguyen , Sabine Schulte im Walde , Ngoc Thang Vu

Sentiment analysis is one of the well-known tasks and fast growing research areas in natural language processing (NLP) and text classifications. This technique has become an essential part of a wide range of applications including politics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Seyed Mahdi Rezaeinia , Ali Ghodsi , Rouhollah Rahmani

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn joint representations by mapping images and text into a shared latent space. However, recent research highlights that deterministic embeddings from standard VLMs often struggle to capture the…

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Modern deep transfer learning approaches have mainly focused on learning generic feature vectors from one task that are transferable to other tasks, such as word embeddings in language and pretrained convolutional features in vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Zhilin Yang , Jake Zhao , Bhuwan Dhingra , Kaiming He , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Yann LeCun

Many natural languages assign grammatical gender also to inanimate nouns in the language. In such languages, words that relate to the gender-marked nouns are inflected to agree with the noun's gender. We show that this affects the word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Hila Gonen , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Yoav Goldberg

Word embeddings are a key component of high-performing natural language processing (NLP) systems, but it remains a challenge to learn good representations for novel words on the fly, i.e., for words that did not occur in the training data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

Word embeddings derived from human-generated corpora inherit strong gender bias which can be further amplified by downstream models. Some commonly adopted debiasing approaches, including the seminal Hard Debias algorithm, apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tianlu Wang , Xi Victoria Lin , Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Bryan McCann , Vicente Ordonez , Caiming Xiong

This report documents, describes, and evaluates new 2024 English GloVe (Global Vectors for Word Representation) models. While the original GloVe models built in 2014 have been widely used and found useful, languages and the world continue…

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Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this…

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Pre-trained word embeddings are the primary method for transfer learning in several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Recent works have focused on using unsupervised techniques such as language modeling to obtain these embeddings. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Mihir Kale , Aditya Siddhant , Sreyashi Nag , Radhika Parik , Matthias Grabmair , Anthony Tomasic

Language models (LMs) automatically learn word embeddings during pre-training on language corpora. Although word embeddings are usually interpreted as feature vectors for individual words, their roles in language model generation remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chi Han , Jialiang Xu , Manling Li , Yi Fung , Chenkai Sun , Nan Jiang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Heng Ji

Modern models for common NLP tasks often employ machine learning techniques and train on journalistic, social media, or other culturally-derived text. These have recently been scrutinized for racial and gender biases, rooting from inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Scott Friedman , Sonja Schmer-Galunder , Anthony Chen , Jeffrey Rye

Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Wentao Wang , Yiqi Wang , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Though language model text embeddings have revolutionized NLP research, their ability to capture high-level semantic information, such as relations between entities in text, is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel contrastive learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Christos Theodoropoulos , James Henderson , Andrei C. Coman , Marie-Francine Moens

Gender-neutral rewriting (GNR) aims to reformulate text to eliminate unnecessary gender specifications while preserving meaning, a particularly challenging task in grammatical-gender languages like Italian. In this work, we conduct the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Andrea Piergentili , Beatrice Savoldi , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli