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Building a semantic parser quickly in a new domain is a fundamental challenge for conversational interfaces, as current semantic parsers require expensive supervision and lack the ability to generalize to new domains. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jonathan Herzig , Jonathan Berant

Two modalities are often used to convey information in a complementary and beneficial manner, e.g., in online news, videos, educational resources, or scientific publications. The automatic understanding of semantic correlations between text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christian Otto , Matthias Springstein , Avishek Anand , Ralph Ewerth

In this paper we propose a new document classification method, bridging discrepancies (so-called semantic gap) between the training set and the application sets of textual data. We demonstrate its superiority over classical text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Piotr Borkowski , Krzysztof Ciesielski , Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

Semantic matching is a mainstream paradigm of zero-shot relation extraction, which matches a given input with a corresponding label description. The entities in the input should exactly match their hypernyms in the description, while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Wenyu Zhan , Xin Zhao , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Junzhe Wang , Minlong Peng , Mingming Sun

Due to the lack of structured knowledge applied in learning distributed representation of cate- gories, existing work cannot incorporate category hierarchies into entity information. We propose a framework that embeds entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Yuezhang Li , Ronghuo Zheng , Tian Tian , Zhiting Hu , Rahul Iyer , Katia Sycara

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

This paper presents two ways of dealing with scarce data in semantic decoding using N-Best speech recognition hypotheses. First, we learn features by using a deep learning architecture in which the weights for the unknown and known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Stefan Ultes , Pawel Budzianowski , Iñigo Casanueva , Milica Gasic , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Steve Young

Recent advancements in open vocabulary models, like CLIP, have notably advanced zero-shot classification and segmentation by utilizing natural language for class-specific embeddings. However, most research has focused on improving model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Cees G. M. Snoek

Recent work has demonstrated that pre-trained language models (PLMs) are zero-shot learners. However, most existing zero-shot methods involve heavy human engineering or complicated self-training pipelines, hindering their application to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yu Fei , Ping Nie , Zhao Meng , Roger Wattenhofer , Mrinmaya Sachan

Visual-semantic embedding is an interesting research topic because it is useful for various tasks, such as visual question answering (VQA), image-text retrieval, image captioning, and scene graph generation. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Kazuya Ueki

Although zero-shot learning (ZSL) has an inferential capability of recognizing new classes that have never been seen before, it always faces two fundamental challenges of the cross modality and crossdomain challenges. In order to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Cheng Xie , Hongxin Xiang , Ting Zeng , Yun Yang , Beibei Yu , Qing Liu

Hashing has shown its efficiency and effectiveness in facilitating large-scale multimedia applications. Supervised knowledge e.g. semantic labels or pair-wise relationship) associated to data is capable of significantly improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Yang Yang , Weilun Chen , Yadan Luo , Fumin Shen , Jie Shao , Heng Tao Shen

Zero-shot scene understanding in real-world settings presents major challenges due to the complexity and variability of natural scenes, where models must recognize new objects, actions, and contexts without prior labeled examples. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

In this paper, we address zero-shot learning (ZSL), the problem of recognizing categories for which no labeled visual data are available during training. We focus on the transductive setting, in which unlabelled visual data from unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Marmoreo , Jacopo Cavazza , Vittorio Murino

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

Modern deep learning methods have achieved great success in machine learning and computer vision fields by learning a set of pre-defined datasets. Howerver, these methods perform unsatisfactorily when applied into real-world situations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Kun Wei , Cheng Deng , Xu Yang , Maosen Li

The lack of annotated data in many languages is a well-known challenge within the field of multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Therefore, many recent studies focus on zero-shot transfer learning and joint training across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Niels van der Heijden , Samira Abnar , Ekaterina Shutova

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

We study universal zero-shot segmentation in this work to achieve panoptic, instance, and semantic segmentation for novel categories without any training samples. Such zero-shot segmentation ability relies on inter-class relationships in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Wei Jiang