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When exposed to human-generated data, language models are known to learn and amplify societal biases. While previous works introduced benchmarks that can be used to assess the bias in these models, they rely on assumptions that may not be…

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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

With the enourmous popularity of large language models, many researchers have raised ethical concerns regarding social biases incorporated in such models. Several methods to measure social bias have been introduced, but apparently these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sarah Schröder , Alexander Schulz , Barbara Hammer

Large language models (LLMs) often inherit and amplify social biases embedded in their training data. A prominent social bias is gender bias. In this regard, prior work has mainly focused on gender stereotyping bias - the association of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Erik Derner , Sara Sansalvador de la Fuente , Yoan Gutiérrez , Paloma Moreda , Nuria Oliver

To extract essential information from complex data, computer scientists have been developing machine learning models that learn low-dimensional representation mode. From such advances in machine learning research, not only computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Akira Matsui , Emilio Ferrara

Distributed word embeddings have yielded state-of-the-art performance in many NLP tasks, mainly due to their success in capturing useful semantic information. These representations assign only a single vector to each word whereas a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Shobhit Jain , Sravan Babu Bodapati , Ramesh Nallapati , Anima Anandkumar

The concept of unsupervised universal sentence encoders has gained traction recently, wherein pre-trained models generate effective task-agnostic fixed-dimensional representations for phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Such methods are of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Subhradeep Kayal

Word translation is an integral part of language translation. In machine translation, each language is considered a domain with its own word embedding. The alignment between word embeddings allows linking semantically equivalent words in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Antonio H. O. Fonseca , David van Dijk

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

Distributed representations of words, better known as word embeddings, have become important building blocks for natural language processing tasks. Numerous studies are devoted to transferring the success of unsupervised word embeddings to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Tianlin Liu , João Sedoc , Lyle Ungar

Detecting and mitigating harmful biases in modern language models are widely recognized as crucial, open problems. In this paper, we take a step back and investigate how language models come to be biased in the first place. We use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Oskar van der Wal , Jaap Jumelet , Katrin Schulz , Willem Zuidema

Recent research has revealed that machine learning models have a tendency to leverage spurious correlations that exist in the training set but may not hold true in general circumstances. For instance, a sentiment classifier may erroneously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Oscar Chew , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Kai-Wei Chang , Kuan-Hao Huang

Sentence embeddings encode sentences in fixed dense vectors and have played an important role in various NLP tasks and systems. Methods for building sentence embeddings include unsupervised learning such as Quick-Thoughts and supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Danqi Liao

Word embeddings trained on large-scale historical corpora can illuminate human biases and stereotypes that perpetuate social inequalities. These embeddings are often trained in separate vector space models defined according to different…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Nabeel Gillani , Roger Levy

Semantic type mismatch between a noun and its context is central to coercion phenomena. This paper introduces a graph-based method to examine how lexical and contextual type information is reflected in word embeddings. We select nouns from…

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Learning representations for semantic relations is important for various tasks such as analogy detection, relational search, and relation classification. Although there have been several proposals for learning representations for individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Danushka Bollegala , Takanori Maehara , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Warning: This paper contains several contents that may be toxic, harmful, or offensive. In the last few years, text-to-image generative models have gained remarkable success in generating images with unprecedented quality accompanied by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jialu Wang , Xinyue Gabby Liu , Zonglin Di , Yang Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Word Embeddings have recently imposed themselves as a standard for representing word meaning in NLP. Semantic similarity between word pairs has become the most common evaluation benchmark for these representations, with vector cosine being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Enrico Santus , Hongmin Wang , Emmanuele Chersoni , Yue Zhang

Word embeddings -- distributed representations of words -- in deep learning are beneficial for many tasks in natural language processing (NLP). However, different embedding sets vary greatly in quality and characteristics of the captured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Wenpeng Yin , Hinrich Schütze

Clinical word embeddings are extensively used in various Bio-NLP problems as a state-of-the-art feature vector representation. Although they are quite successful at the semantic representation of words, due to the dataset - which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gizem Sogancioglu , Fabian Mijsters , Amar van Uden , Jelle Peperzak