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This paper investigates contextual word representation models from the lens of similarity analysis. Given a collection of trained models, we measure the similarity of their internal representations and attention. Critically, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 John M. Wu , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

This exploratory study examines how low-impact journals, defined through subject-normalized Eigenfactor percentiles, are associated with denser and more reciprocating patterns of author-to-author citations. Using Crossref records, we assign…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Panagiotis-Alexios Spanakis , Grigorios Alexandrou , Diomidis Spinellis

Purpose: Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, however, and misunderstandings can reduce the efficiency of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mike Thelwall , Kayvan Kousha , Mahshid Abdoli , Emma Stuart , Meiko Makita , Paul Wilson , Jonathan Levitt

Donoho and Kipnis (2022) showed that the the higher criticism (HC) test statistic has a non-Gaussian phase transition but remarked that it is probably not optimal, in the detection of sparse differences between two large frequency tables…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Hock Peng Chan

Many features from texts and languages can now be inferred from statistical analyses using concepts from complex networks and dynamical systems. In this paper we quantify how topological properties of word co-occurrence networks and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-20 Diego R. Amancio , Eduardo G. Altmann , Osvaldo N. Oliveira , Luciano da F. Costa

We address the problem of predicting similarity between a pair of handwritten document images written by different individuals. This has applications related to matching and mining in image collections containing handwritten content. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Praveen Krishnan , C. V. Jawahar

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is the task of assigning labels to a text within a structured space organized as a hierarchy. Recent works treat HTC as a conventional multilabel classification problem, therefore evaluating it as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Roman Plaud , Matthieu Labeau , Antoine Saillenfest , Thomas Bonald

Despite large-scale pre-trained language models have achieved striking results for text classificaion, recent work has raised concerns about the challenge of shortcut learning. In general, a keyword is regarded as a shortcut if it creates a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Song , Fausto Giunchiglia , Yingji Li , Hao Xu

Plagiarism is the practice of claiming to be someone else content, thoughts or ideas as one own without any proper credit and citations. This paper is a survey paper that, represent the some of the great research paper and its comparison…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jabir Al Nahian , Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum

Diacritics are orthographic marks that clarify pronunciation, distinguish similar words, or alter meaning. They play a central role in many writing systems, yet their impact on language technology has not been systematically quantified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Adi Cohen , Yuval Pinter

The genetic selection of keywords set, the text frequencies of which are considered as attributes in text classification analysis, has been analyzed. The genetic optimization was performed on a set of words, which is the fraction of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bohdan Pavlyshenko

Signal identification in large-dimensional settings is a challenging problem in biostatistics. Recently, the method of higher criticism (HC) was shown to be an effective means for determining appropriate decision thresholds. Here, we study…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-12-21 Bernd Klaus , Korbinian Strimmer

Various text analysis techniques exist, which attempt to uncover unstructured information from text. In this work, we explore using statistical dependence measures for textual classification, representing text as word vectors. Student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Samuel Cunningham-Nelson , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Wageeh Boles

Large language models (LLMs) often produce unsupported or unverifiable content, known as "hallucinations." To mitigate this, retrieval-augmented LLMs incorporate citations, grounding the content in verifiable sources. Despite such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Weijia Zhang , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Yifei Yuan , Jiahuan Pei , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas

The large size and complex decision mechanisms of state-of-the-art text classifiers make it difficult for humans to understand their predictions, leading to a potential lack of trust by the users. These issues have led to the adoption of…

Devising an index to measure the quality of research is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a set of indices to evaluate the quality of research produced by an author. Our indices utilize a policy that assigns the weights to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ash Mohammad Abbas

In this paper, we study counterfactual fairness in text classification, which asks the question: How would the prediction change if the sensitive attribute referenced in the example were different? Toxicity classifiers demonstrate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Sahaj Garg , Vincent Perot , Nicole Limtiaco , Ankur Taly , Ed H. Chi , Alex Beutel

Objective: Systematic reviews of scholarly documents often provide complete and exhaustive summaries of literature relevant to a research question. However, well-done systematic reviews are expensive, time-demanding, and labor-intensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Rabah Al-Zaidy , Amy Zhang , Stefan Baral , Le Bao , C. Lee Giles

Performance of classifiers is often measured in terms of average accuracy on test data. Despite being a standard measure, average accuracy fails in characterizing the fit of the model to the underlying conditional law of labels given the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-01 Adel Javanmard , Mohammad Mehrabi

Measuring the relatedness between scientific publications is essential in many areas of bibliometrics and science policy. Controlled vocabularies provide a promising basis for measuring relatedness and are widely used in combination with…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Emil Dolmer Alnor