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Learning word embeddings has received a significant amount of attention recently. Often, word embeddings are learned in an unsupervised manner from a large collection of text. The genre of the text typically plays an important role in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Wei Yang , Wei Lu , Vincent W. Zheng

Neural language models learn word representations that capture rich linguistic and conceptual information. Here we investigate the embeddings learned by neural machine translation models. We show that translation-based embeddings outperform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Felix Hill , KyungHyun Cho , Sebastien Jean , Coline Devin , Yoshua Bengio

Word embeddings are substantially successful in capturing semantic relations among words. However, these lexical semantics are difficult to be interpreted. Definition modeling provides a more intuitive way to evaluate embeddings by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haitong Zhang , Yongping Du , Jiaxin Sun , Qingxiao Li

Neural embeddings have been used with great success in Natural Language Processing (NLP). They provide compact representations that encapsulate word similarity and attain state-of-the-art performance in a range of linguistic tasks. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-20 Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , James Clough , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Neural network based models are a very powerful tool for creating word embeddings, the objective of these models is to group similar words together. These embeddings have been used as features to improve results in various applications such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-27 Salman Mahmood , Rami Al-Rfou , Klaus Mueller

This position paper argues that text embedding research should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling objective. Text embeddings are a foundational component of modern NLP, underpinning a wide range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiqun Sun , Qiang Huang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Jun Yu

Unsupervised word embeddings have become a popular approach of word representation in NLP tasks. However there are limitations to the semantics represented by unsupervised embeddings, and inadequate fine-tuning of embeddings can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Xiao Zhang , Ji Wu , Dejing Dou

Topic models are frequently used in machine learning owing to their high interpretability and modular structure. However, extending a topic model to include a supervisory signal, to incorporate pre-trained word embedding vectors and to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ryohei Hisano

Understanding how biological constraints shape neural computation is a central goal of computational neuroscience. Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks provide a promising avenue to study how modelled constraints shape the combined…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Cornelia Sheeran , Andrew S. Ham , Duncan E. Astle , Jascha Achterberg , Danyal Akarca

Distributed representations of words have been shown to capture lexical semantics, as demonstrated by their effectiveness in word similarity and analogical relation tasks. But, these tasks only evaluate lexical semantics indirectly. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Thanapon Noraset , Chen Liang , Larry Birnbaum , Doug Downey

Word embeddings have recently been shown to reflect many of the pronounced societal biases (e.g., gender bias or racial bias). Existing studies are, however, limited in scope and do not investigate the consistency of biases across relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anne Lauscher , Goran Glavaš

Text embeddings are numerical representations of text data, where words, phrases, or entire documents are converted into vectors of real numbers. These embeddings capture semantic meanings and relationships between text elements in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Fusheng Wei , Robert Neary , Han Qin , Qiang Mao , Jianping Zhang

In the last few years, neural networks have been intensively used to develop meaningful distributed representations of words and contexts around them. When these representations, also known as "embeddings", are learned from unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Giuseppe Marra , Andrea Zugarini , Stefano Melacci , Marco Maggini

Meta-embedding (ME) learning is an emerging approach that attempts to learn more accurate word embeddings given existing (source) word embeddings as the sole input. Due to their ability to incorporate semantics from multiple source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Danushka Bollegala , James O'Neill

Neural machine translation has significantly pushed forward the quality of the field. However, there are remaining big issues with the output translations and one of them is fairness. Neural models are trained on large text corpora which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Escudé Font , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Word embedding methods revolve around learning continuous distributed vector representations of words with neural networks, which can capture semantic and/or syntactic cues, and in turn be used to induce similarity measures among words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Kuan-Yu Chen , Shih-Hung Liu , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

Word embedding is central to neural machine translation (NMT), which has attracted intensive research interest in recent years. In NMT, the source embedding plays the role of the entrance while the target embedding acts as the terminal.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Yang Liu , Lidia S. Chao , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

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

Foundation models have established unified representations for natural language processing, yet this paradigm remains largely unexplored for tabular data. Existing methods face fundamental limitations: LLM-based approaches lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Minjie Qiang , Mingming Zhang , Xiaoyi Bao , Xing Fu , Yu Cheng , Weiqiang Wang , Zhongqing Wang , Ningtao Wang

Adversarial training is widely acknowledged as the most effective defense against adversarial attacks. However, it is also well established that achieving both robustness and generalization in adversarially trained models involves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Enes Altinisik , Hassan Sajjad , Husrev Taha Sencar , Safa Messaoud , Sanjay Chawla