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Cross-lingual topic modeling aims to discover shared semantic structures across languages, yet existing models depend on sparse bilingual resources and often yield incoherent or weakly aligned topics. Recent LLM-based refinements improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Minh Chu Xuan , Tien-Phat Nguyen , Linh Ngo Van , Dinh Viet Sang , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep , Trung Le

Recent advances in large language models enable documents to be represented as dense semantic embeddings, supporting similarity-based operations over large text collections. However, many web-scale systems still rely on flat clustering or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thomas Haschka , Joseph Bakarji

We present a method for coarse-grained cross-lingual alignment of comparable texts: segments consisting of contiguous paragraphs that discuss the same theme (e.g. history, economy) are aligned based on induced multilingual topics. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Vivi Nastase , Angela Fahrni

This paper proposes a new methodology to study sequential corpora by implementing a two-stage algorithm that learns time-based topics with respect to a scale of document positions and introduces the concept of Topic Scaling which ranks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Sami Diaf , Ulrich Fritsche

In this paper, we present a Bayesian multilingual document model for learning language-independent document embeddings. The model is an extension of BaySMM [Kesiraju et al 2020] to the multilingual scenario. It learns to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Santosh Kesiraju , Sangeet Sagar , Ondřej Glembek , Lukáš Burget , Ján Černocký , Suryakanth V Gangashetty

Cross-lingual information retrieval is a challenging task in the absence of aligned parallel corpora. In this paper, we address this problem by considering topically aligned corpora designed for evaluating an IR setup. To emphasize, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Mitodru Niyogi , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Arnab Bhattacharya

Most previous work on the recently developed language-modeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into account the structure of the surrounding corpus. We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Oren Kurland , Lillian Lee

Legal judgment prediction suffers from the problem of long case documents exceeding tens of thousands of words, in general, and having a non-uniform structure. Predicting judgments from such documents becomes a challenging task, more so on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Nishchal Prasad , Mohand Boughanem , Taoufiq Dkaki

Semi-supervised learning through deep generative models and multi-lingual pretraining techniques have orchestrated tremendous success across different areas of NLP. Nonetheless, their development has happened in isolation, while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yi Zhu , Ehsan Shareghi , Yingzhen Li , Roi Reichart , Anna Korhonen

Document similarity is the problem of estimating the degree to which a given pair of documents has similar semantic content. An accurate document similarity measure can improve several enterprise relevant tasks such as document clustering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Harshita Sahijwani , Kunal Jha , Sourish Dasgupta , Jens Lehmann

In this paper we describe an algorithm for aligning sentences with their translations in a bilingual corpus using lexical information of the languages. Existing efficient algorithms ignore word identities and consider only the sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Akshar Bharati , V. Sriram , A. Vamshi Krishna , Rajeev Sangal , S. M. Bendre

Document similarity is an important part of Natural Language Processing and is most commonly used for plagiarism-detection and text summarization. Thus, finding the overall most effective document similarity algorithm could have a major…

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The analysis of public affairs documents is crucial for citizens as it promotes transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making. It allows citizens to understand government policies, participate in public discourse, and hold…

This paper describes a new system for semi-automatically building, extending and managing a terminological thesaurus---a multilingual terminology dictionary enriched with relationships between the terms themselves to form a thesaurus. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adam Rambousek , Ales Horak , Vit Suchomel , Vit Baisa

We are presenting a set of multilingual text analysis tools that can help analysts in any field to explore large document collections quickly in order to determine whether the documents contain information of interest, and to find the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camelia Ignat , Bruno Pouliquen , Ralf Steinberger , Tomaz Erjavec

Despite their remarkable ability to capture linguistic nuances across diverse languages, questions persist regarding the degree of alignment between languages in multilingual embeddings. Drawing inspiration from research on high-dimensional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Basel Mousi , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Majd Hawasly , Ahmed Abdelali

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

Topic relevance between query and document is a very important part of social search, which can evaluate the degree of matching between document and user's requirement. In most social search scenarios such as Dianping, modeling search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yizhu Liu , Ran Tao , Shengyu Guo , Yifan Yang

Document retrieval has been an important research problem over many years in the information retrieval community. State-of-the-art techniques utilize various methods in matching documents to a given document including keywords, phrases, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Kalpa Gunaratna

Cross-lingual topic modeling aims to uncover shared semantic themes across languages. Several methods have been proposed to address this problem, leveraging both traditional and neural approaches. While previous methods have achieved some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tien Phat Nguyen , Vu Minh Ngo , Tung Nguyen , Linh Van Ngo , Duc Anh Nguyen , Sang Dinh , Trung Le