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Corpus-based set expansion (i.e., finding the "complete" set of entities belonging to the same semantic class, based on a given corpus and a tiny set of seeds) is a critical task in knowledge discovery. It may facilitate numerous downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jiaming Shen , Zeqiu Wu , Dongming Lei , Jingbo Shang , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Taxonomy is formulated as directed acyclic concepts graphs or trees that support many downstream tasks. Many new coming concepts need to be added to an existing taxonomy. The traditional taxonomy expansion task aims only at finding the best…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhouhong Gu , Sihang Jiang , Jingping Liu , Yanghua Xiao , Hongwei Feng , Zhixu Li , Jiaqing Liang , Jian Zhong

Taxonomies are semantic hierarchies of concepts. One limitation of current taxonomy learning systems is that they define concepts as single words. This position paper argues that contextualized word representations, which recently achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Lukas Schmelzeisen , Steffen Staab

Entity set expansion and synonym discovery are two critical NLP tasks. Previous studies accomplish them separately, without exploring their interdependencies. In this work, we hypothesize that these two tasks are tightly coupled because two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Jiaming Shen , Wenda Qiu , Jingbo Shang , Michelle Vanni , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Taxonomies play a crucial role in helping researchers structure and navigate knowledge in a hierarchical manner. They also form an important part in the creation of comprehensive literature surveys. The existing approaches to automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Avishek Lahiri , Yufang Hou , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Taxonomies, which organize domain concepts into hierarchical structures, are crucial for building knowledge systems and downstream applications. As domain knowledge evolves, taxonomies need to be continuously updated to include new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Fei Xia , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We introduce SelfExplain, a novel self-explaining model that explains a text classifier's predictions using phrase-based concepts. SelfExplain augments existing neural classifiers by adding (1) a globally interpretable layer that identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Dheeraj Rajagopal , Vidhisha Balachandran , Eduard Hovy , Yulia Tsvetkov

Taxonomy expansion task is essential in organizing the ever-increasing volume of new concepts into existing taxonomies. Most existing methods focus exclusively on using textual semantics, leading to an inability to generalize to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Tinghui Zhu , Jingping Liu , Jiaqing Liang , Haiyun Jiang , Yanghua Xiao , Zongyu Wang , Rui Xie , Yunsen Xian

We study the problem of automatically building hypernym taxonomies from textual and visual data. Previous works in taxonomy induction generally ignore the increasingly prominent visual data, which encode important perceptual semantics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Hao Zhang , Zhiting Hu , Yuntian Deng , Mrinmaya Sachan , Zhicheng Yan , Eric P. Xing

Query expansion is a method for alleviating the vocabulary mismatch problem present in information retrieval tasks. Previous works have shown that terms selected for query expansion by traditional methods such as pseudo-relevance feedback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Ayyoob Imani , Amir Vakili , Ali Montazer , Azadeh Shakery

Academic paper search is an essential task for efficient literature discovery and scientific advancement. While dense retrieval has advanced various ad-hoc searches, it often struggles to match the underlying academic concepts between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 SeongKu Kang , Yunyi Zhang , Pengcheng Jiang , Dongha Lee , Jiawei Han , Hwanjo Yu

Short-text classification, like all data science, struggles to achieve high performance using limited data. As a solution, a short sentence may be expanded with new and relevant feature words to form an artificially enlarged dataset, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Duncan Cameron-Steinke

Convolutional neural networks trained using manually generated labels are commonly used for semantic or instance segmentation. In precision agriculture, automated flower detection methods use supervised models and post-processing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Abubakar Siddique , Amy Tabb , Henry Medeiros

The next-token prediction (NTP) objective trains language models to predict a single token at each step, even though many continuations can express the same meaning. For example, in the sentence ``this sticker can be placed here'',…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Christine Zhang , Dan Jurafsky , Chen Shani

Keyword based search engines have problems with term ambiguity and vocabulary mismatch. In this paper, we propose a query expansion technique that enriches queries expressed as keywords and short natural language descriptions. We present a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Joan Guisado-Gámez , David Dominguez-Sal , Josep-LLuis Larriba-Pey

Taxonomies are an important ingredient of knowledge organization, and serve as a backbone for more sophisticated knowledge representations in intelligent systems, such as formal ontologies. However, building taxonomies manually is a costly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Petar Ristoski , Stefano Faralli , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Heiko Paulheim

Recent approaches to text analysis from social media and other corpora rely on word lists to detect topics, measure meaning, or to select relevant documents. These lists are often generated by applying computational lexicon expansion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Anna Di Natale , David Garcia

We present a system for bottom-up cumulative learning of myriad concepts corresponding to meaningful character strings, and their part-related and prediction edges. The learning is self-supervised in that the concepts discovered are used as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Omid Madani

We present \textit{AutoExtend}, a system to learn embeddings for synsets and lexemes. It is flexible in that it can take any word embeddings as input and does not need an additional training corpus. The synset/lexeme embeddings obtained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sascha Rothe , Hinrich Schütze

Taxonomies play a vital role in structuring and categorizing information across domains. However, many existing taxonomies suffer from limited coverage and outdated or ambiguous nodes, reducing their effectiveness in knowledge retrieval. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeinab Ghamlouch , Mehwish Alam