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Distributed representations of meaning are a natural way to encode covariance relationships between words and phrases in NLP. By overcoming data sparsity problems, as well as providing information about semantic relatedness which is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Karl Moritz Hermann , Phil Blunsom

The embedding space of language models is widely believed to capture the semantic relationships; for instance, embeddings of digits often exhibit an ordered structure that corresponds to their natural sequence. However, the mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Junjie Yao , Zhi-Qin John Xu

Word2vec, as an efficient tool for learning vector representation of words has shown its effectiveness in many natural language processing tasks. Mikolov et al. issued Skip-Gram and Negative Sampling model for developing this toolbox.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu

Word embeddings are a powerful approach for analyzing language and have been widely popular in numerous tasks in information retrieval and text mining. Training embeddings over huge corpora is computationally expensive because the input is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Avishek Anand , Megha Khosla , Jaspreet Singh , Jan-Hendrik Zab , Zijian Zhang

We propose an unsupervised neural model for learning a discrete embedding of words. Unlike existing discrete embeddings, our binary embedding supports vector arithmetic operations similar to continuous embeddings. Our embedding represents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Masataro Asai , Zilu Tang

In recent years, word embeddings have been surprisingly effective at capturing intuitive characteristics of the words they represent. These vectors achieve the best results when training corpora are extremely large, sometimes billions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Willie Boag , Hassan Kané

Recent work has demonstrated that embeddings of tree-like graphs in hyperbolic space surpass their Euclidean counterparts in performance by a large margin. Inspired by these results and scale-free structure in the word co-occurrence graph,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Matthias Leimeister , Benjamin J. Wilson

In modern NLP applications, word embeddings are a crucial backbone that can be readily shared across a number of tasks. However as the text distributions change and word semantics evolve over time, the downstream applications using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Nishtha Madaan , Prateek Chaudhury , Nishant Kumar , Srikanta Bedathur

Word Representations form the core component for almost all advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as text mining, question-answering, and text summarization, etc. Over the last two decades, immense research is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Shree Charran R , Rahul Kumar Dubey

Static word embeddings are ubiquitous in computational social science applications and contribute to practical decision-making in a variety of fields including law and healthcare. However, assessing the statistical uncertainty in downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Andrea Vallebueno , Cassandra Handan-Nader , Christopher D. Manning , Daniel E. Ho

Self-supervised word embedding algorithms such as word2vec provide a minimal setting for studying representation learning in language modeling. We examine the quartic Taylor approximation of the word2vec loss around the origin, and we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Dhruva Karkada , James B. Simon , Yasaman Bahri , Michael R. DeWeese

Most state-of-the-art models in natural language processing (NLP) are neural models built on top of large, pre-trained, contextual language models that generate representations of words in context and are fine-tuned for the task at hand.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Brian Lester , Daniel Pressel , Amy Hemmeter , Sagnik Ray Choudhury , Srinivas Bangalore

Recently, several works in the domain of natural language processing presented successful methods for word embedding. Among them, the Skip-Gram with negative sampling, known also as word2vec, advanced the state-of-the-art of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Oren Barkan

Various NLP problems -- such as the prediction of sentence similarity, entailment, and discourse relations -- are all instances of the same general task: the modeling of semantic relations between a pair of textual elements. A popular model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Damien Sileo , Tim Van-De-Cruys , Camille Pradel , Philippe Muller

With a simple architecture and the ability to learn meaningful word embeddings efficiently from texts containing billions of words, word2vec remains one of the most popular neural language models used today. However, as only a single…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-09 Franziska Horn

Sentence embedding is one of the most fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing and plays an important role in various tasks. The recent breakthrough in sentence embedding is achieved by pre-trained language models (PLMs). Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lingfeng Shen , Haiyun Jiang , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

We describe a method for learning word embeddings with data-dependent dimensionality. Our Stochastic Dimensionality Skip-Gram (SD-SG) and Stochastic Dimensionality Continuous Bag-of-Words (SD-CBOW) are nonparametric analogs of Mikolov et…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-14 Eric Nalisnick , Sachin Ravi

Learning word embeddings using distributional information is a task that has been studied by many researchers, and a lot of studies are reported in the literature. On the contrary, less studies were done for the case of multiple languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Marco Berlot , Evan Kaplan

Foreign policy analysis has been struggling to find ways to measure policy preferences and paradigm shifts in international political systems. This paper presents a novel, potential solution to this challenge, through the application of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Stefano Gurciullo , Slava Mikhaylov

Word embeddings are powerful representations that form the foundation of many natural language processing architectures, both in English and in other languages. To gain further insight into word embeddings, we explore their stability (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Laura Burdick , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Rada Mihalcea