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Cross-lingual topic models have been prevalent for cross-lingual text analysis by revealing aligned latent topics. However, most existing methods suffer from producing repetitive topics that hinder further analysis and performance decline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaobao Wu , Xinshuai Dong , Thong Nguyen , Chaoqun Liu , Liangming Pan , Anh Tuan Luu

Distributed word representations have been demonstrated to be effective in capturing semantic and syntactic regularities. Unsupervised representation learning from large unlabeled corpora can learn similar representations for those words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Chunting Zhou , Chonglin Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Francis C. M. Lau

Cross-lingual representations of words enable us to reason about word meaning in multilingual contexts and are a key facilitator of cross-lingual transfer when developing natural language processing models for low-resource languages. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić , Anders Søgaard

One of the long-standing challenges in lexical semantics consists in learning representations of words which reflect their semantic properties. The remarkable success of word embeddings for this purpose suggests that high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yixiao Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Luis Espinosa Anke , Steven Schockaert

Finding an optimal word representation algorithm is particularly important in terms of domain specific data, as the same word can have different meanings and hence, different representations depending on the domain and context. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nouman Ahmed , Ronin Wu , Victor Botev

Word embeddings predict a word from its neighbours by learning small, dense embedding vectors. In practice, this prediction corresponds to a semantic score given to the predicted word (or term weight). We present a novel model that, given a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Stephen Alstrup , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

Stopword removal is a critical stage in many Machine Learning methods but often receives little consideration, it interferes with the model visualizations and disrupts user confidence. Inappropriately chosen or hastily omitted stopwords not…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shuangjiang Xue , Pierre Le Bras , David A. Robb , Mike J. Chantler , Stefano Padilla

Topic models are valuable for understanding extensive document collections, but they don't always identify the most relevant topics. Classical probabilistic and anchor-based topic models offer interactive versions that allow users to guide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kyle Seelman , Mozhi Zhang , Jordan Boyd-Graber

In this paper, we introduce personalized word embeddings, and examine their value for language modeling. We compare the performance of our proposed prediction model when using personalized versus generic word representations, and study how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Charles Welch , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Rada Mihalcea

Current research has explored how Generative AI can support the brainstorming process for content creators, but a gap remains in exploring support-tools for the pre-writing process. Specifically, our research is focused on supporting users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Grace Li , Tao Long , Lydia B. Chilton

In recent years, many recommender systems have utilized textual data for topic extraction to enhance interpretability. However, our findings reveal a noticeable deficiency in the coherence of keywords within topics, resulting in low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Xuefei Jiang , Dairui Liu , Ruihai Dong

Topic models analyze text from a set of documents. Documents are modeled as a mixture of topics, with topics defined as probability distributions on words. Inferences of interest include the most probable topics and characterization of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jason Wang , Robert E. Weiss

The existing methods for image search reranking suffer from the unfaithfulness of the assumptions under which the text-based images search result. The resulting images contain more irrelevant images. Hence the re ranking concept arises to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-11 V Rajakumar , Vipeen V Bopche

Topic modelling is a text mining technique for identifying salient themes from a number of documents. The output is commonly a set of topics consisting of isolated tokens that often co-occur in such documents. Manual effort is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lowri Williams , Eirini Anthi , Laura Arman , Pete Burnap

Considering that words with different characteristic in the text have different importance for classification, grouping them together separately can strengthen the semantic expression of each part. Thus we propose a new text representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xiaoye Tan , Rui Yan , Chongyang Tao , Mingrui Wu

Topic models provide a useful text-mining tool for learning, extracting, and discovering latent structures in large text corpora. Although a plethora of methods have been proposed for topic modeling, lacking in the literature is a formal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Yinyin Chen , Shishuang He , Yun Yang , Feng Liang

This work combines algorithms based on word embeddings, dimensionality reduction, and clustering. The objective is to obtain topics from a set of unclassified texts. The algorithm to obtain the word embeddings is the BERT model, a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Diego Saldaña Ulloa

Topic models have become popular tools for dimension reduction and exploratory analysis of text data which consists in observed frequencies of a vocabulary of $p$ words in $n$ documents, stored in a $p\times n$ matrix. The main premise is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 Xin Bing , Florentina Bunea , Marten Wegkamp

In this paper we present the approach of introducing thesaurus knowledge into probabilistic topic models. The main idea of the approach is based on the assumption that the frequencies of semantically related words and phrases, which are met…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Natalia Loukachevitch , Michael Nokel , Kirill Ivanov

Topic models are typically evaluated with respect to the global topic distributions that they generate, using metrics such as coherence, but without regard to local (token-level) topic assignments. Token-level assignments are important for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jeffrey Lund , Piper Armstrong , Wilson Fearn , Stephen Cowley , Courtni Byun , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Kevin Seppi