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Word embeddings are commonly used as a starting point in many NLP models to achieve state-of-the-art performances. However, with a large vocabulary and many dimensions, these floating-point representations are expensive both in terms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Julien Tissier , Christophe Gravier , Amaury Habrard

Word embedding, specially with its recent developments, promises a quantification of the similarity between terms. However, it is not clear to which extent this similarity value can be genuinely meaningful and useful for subsequent tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Navid Rekabsaz , Mihai Lupu , Allan Hanbury

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

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and especially natural language text analysis have seen great advances in recent times. Usage of deep learning in text processing has revolutionized the techniques for text processing and achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ramchandra Joshi , Purvi Goel , Raviraj Joshi

Cross-lingual word embeddings are vector representations of words in different languages where words with similar meaning are represented by similar vectors, regardless of the language. Recent developments which construct these embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yerai Doval , Jose Camacho-Collados , Luis Espinosa-Anke , Steven Schockaert

Semantic Shift Detection (SSD) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, SSD has been addressed by linguists and social scientists through manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Stefano Montanelli , Francesco Periti

Learning a distinct representation for each sense of an ambiguous word could lead to more powerful and fine-grained models of vector-space representations. Yet while `multi-sense' methods have been proposed and tested on artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Jiwei Li , Dan Jurafsky

In this paper, we introduce the use of Semantic Hashing as embedding for the task of Intent Classification and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three frequently used benchmarks. Intent Classification on a small dataset is a…

The explosive growth of online content demands robust Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques that can capture nuanced meanings and cultural context across diverse languages. Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR) goes beyond superficial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sharvi Endait , Srushti Sonavane , Ridhima Sinare , Pritika Rohera , Advait Naik , Dipali Kadam

Word embeddings are a fixed, distributional representation of the context of words in a corpus learned from word co-occurrences. While word embeddings have proven to have many practical uses in natural language processing tasks, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 James Powell , Kari Sentz

We investigate the effect of various dependency-based word embeddings on distinguishing between functional and domain similarity, word similarity rankings, and two downstream tasks in English. Variations include word embeddings trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Sean MacAvaney , Amir Zeldes

In this paper, we introduce personalized word embeddings, and examine their value for language modeling. We compare the performance of our proposed prediction model when using personalized versus generic word representations, and study how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Charles Welch , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Rada Mihalcea

It is very challenging to work with low-resource languages due to the inadequate availability of data. Using a dictionary to map independently trained word embeddings into a shared vector space has proved to be very useful in learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sourav Dutta

Deep learning currently dominates the benchmarks for various NLP tasks and, at the basis of such systems, words are frequently represented as embeddings --vectors in a low dimensional space-- learned from large text corpora and various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ronald Denaux , Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

In natural language processing (NLP) of spoken languages, word embeddings have been shown to be a useful method to encode the meaning of words. Sign languages are visual languages, which require sign embeddings to capture the visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Translating technical terms into lexically similar, low-resource Indian languages remains a challenge due to limited parallel data and the complexity of linguistic structures. We propose a novel use-case of Sanskrit-based segments for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Karthika N J , Krishnakant Bhatt , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Preethi Jyothi

This paper presents a new technique for creating monolingual and cross-lingual meta-embeddings. Our method integrates multiple word embeddings created from complementary techniques, textual sources, knowledge bases and languages. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Iker García-Ferrero , Rodrigo Agerri , German Rigau

Word embedding, which encodes words into vectors, is an important starting point in natural language processing and commonly used in many text-based machine learning tasks. However, in most current word embedding approaches, the similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Denis Sedov , Zhirong Yang

This paper investigates techniques for knowledge injection into word embeddings learned from large corpora of unannotated data. These representations are trained with word cooccurrence statistics and do not commonly exploit syntactic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Diego Ramirez-Echavarria , Antonis Bikakis , Luke Dickens , Rob Miller , Andreas Vlachidis

This work traces the evolution of word-embedding techniques within the natural language processing (NLP) literature. We collect and analyze 149 research articles spanning the period from 1954 to 2025, providing both a comprehensive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minh Anh Nguyen , Kuheli Sai , Minh Nguyen