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Semantic vector embedding techniques have proven useful in learning semantic representations of data across multiple domains. A key application enabled by such techniques is the ability to measure semantic similarity between given data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shalisha Witherspoon , Dean Steuer , Graham Bent , Nirmit Desai

Word embeddings are a powerful approach for capturing semantic similarity among terms in a vocabulary. In this paper, we develop exponential family embeddings, a class of methods that extends the idea of word embeddings to other types of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-22 Maja R. Rudolph , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Stephan Mandt , David M. Blei

Modelling semantic similarity plays a fundamental role in lexical semantic applications. A natural way of calculating semantic similarity is to access handcrafted semantic networks, but similarity prediction can also be anticipated in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dongqiang Yang , Yanqin Yin

We introduce a neural network-based system of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for German that is based on SenseFitting, a novel method for optimizing WSD. We outperform knowledge-based WSD methods by up to 25% F1-score and produce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Manuel Stoeckel , Sajawel Ahmed , Alexander Mehler

Recent work has begun exploring neural acoustic word embeddings---fixed-dimensional vector representations of arbitrary-length speech segments corresponding to words. Such embeddings are applicable to speech retrieval and recognition tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Wanjia He , Weiran Wang , Karen Livescu

Transformative innovations in model architectures have introduced hierarchical embedding augmentation as a means to redefine the representation of tokens through multi-level semantic structures, offering enhanced adaptability to complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Derek Yotheringhay , Alistair Kirkland , Humphrey Kirkbride , Josiah Whitesteeple

Traditional neural embeddings represent concepts as points, excelling at similarity but struggling with higher-level reasoning and asymmetric relationships. We introduce a novel paradigm: embedding concepts as linear subspaces. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gabriel Moreira , Zita Marinho , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong

Recent works on word representations mostly rely on predictive models. Distributed word representations (aka word embeddings) are trained to optimally predict the contexts in which the corresponding words tend to appear. Such models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Rémi Lebret , Ronan Collobert

Low-dimensional embeddings are a cornerstone in the modelling and analysis of complex networks. However, most existing approaches for mining network embedding spaces rely on computationally intensive machine learning systems to facilitate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Alexandros Xenos , Noel-Malod Dognin , Natasa Przulj

We propose a new kind of embedding for natural language text that deeply represents semantic meaning. Standard text embeddings use the outputs from hidden layers of a pretrained language model. In our method, we let a language model learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Much effort has been devoted to evaluate whether multi-task learning can be leveraged to learn rich representations that can be used in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) down-stream applications. However, there is still a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Victor Sanh , Thomas Wolf , Sebastian Ruder

The vocabulary mismatch problem is a long-standing problem in information retrieval. Semantic matching holds the promise of solving the problem. Recent advances in language technology have given rise to unsupervised neural models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Kezban Dilek Onal , Ismail Sengor Altingovde , Pinar Karagoz , Maarten de Rijke

Word embedding models offer continuous vector representations that can capture rich contextual semantics based on their word co-occurrence patterns. While these word vectors can provide very effective features used in many NLP tasks such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Cem Safak Sahin , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Brandon Oselio , William M. Campbell

In recent years, machine learning has been widely adopted to automate the audio mixing process. Automatic mixing systems have been applied to various audio effects such as gain-adjustment, equalization, and reverberation. These systems can…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Satvik Venkatesh , David Moffat , Eduardo Reck Miranda

Image classification has been studied extensively, but there has been limited work in using unconventional, external guidance other than traditional image-label pairs for training. We present a set of methods for leveraging information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ankit Dhall , Anastasia Makarova , Octavian Ganea , Dario Pavllo , Michael Greeff , Andreas Krause

Word embeddings and language models have transformed natural language processing (NLP) by facilitating the representation of linguistic elements in continuous vector spaces. This review visits foundational concepts such as the…

Numerous embedding models have been recently explored to incorporate semantic knowledge into visual recognition. Existing methods typically focus on minimizing the distance between the corresponding images and texts in the embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Dong Li , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We consider the problem of learning distributed representations for documents in data streams. The documents are represented as low-dimensional vectors and are jointly learned with distributed vector representations of word tokens using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Nemanja Djuric , Hao Wu , Vladan Radosavljevic , Mihajlo Grbovic , Narayan Bhamidipati

Word embeddings are an essential component in a wide range of natural language processing applications. However, distributional semantic models are known to struggle when only a small number of context sentences are available. Several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jeroen Van Hautte , Guy Emerson , Marek Rei

Distributional semantics based on neural approaches is a cornerstone of Natural Language Processing, with surprising connections to human meaning representation as well. Recent Transformer-based Language Models have proven capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Daniel Loureiro , Alípio Mário Jorge , Jose Camacho-Collados