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The number of senses of a given word, or polysemy, is a very subjective notion, which varies widely across annotators and resources. We propose a novel method to estimate polysemy, based on simple geometry in the contextual embedding space.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Christos Xypolopoulos , Antoine J. -P. Tixier , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Text search based on lexical matching of keywords is not satisfactory due to polysemous and synonymous words. Semantic search that exploits word meanings, in general, improves search performance. In this paper, we survey WordNet-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vuong M. Ngo , Tru H. Cao , Tuan M. V. Le

As language models become capable of processing increasingly long and complex texts, there has been growing interest in their application within computational literary studies. However, evaluating the usefulness of these models for such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Natasha Johnson , Amanda Bertsch , Maria-Emil Deal , Emma Strubell

We present SimLex-999, a gold standard resource for evaluating distributional semantic models that improves on existing resources in several important ways. First, in contrast to gold standards such as WordSim-353 and MEN, it explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Felix Hill , Roi Reichart , Anna Korhonen

This paper proposes a novel method that can replace compression-based dissimilarity measure (CDM) in composer estimation task. The main features of the proposed method are clarity and scalability. First, since the proposed method is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ayaka Takamoto , Mitsuo Yoshida , Kyoji Umemura , Yuko Ichikawa

One of the main problems that emerges in the classic approach to semantics is the difficulty in acquisition and maintenance of ontologies and semantic annotations. On the other hand, the Internet explosion and the massive diffusion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Valentina Franzoni

We present semantic attribute matching networks (SAM-Net) for jointly establishing correspondences and transferring attributes across semantically similar images, which intelligently weaves the advantages of the two tasks while overcoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Seungryong Kim , Dongbo Min , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Sangryul Jeon , Kwanghoon Sohn

This work falls in the areas of information retrieval and semantic web, and aims to improve the evaluation of web search tools. Indeed, the huge number of information on the web as well as the growth of new inexperienced users creates new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Abdelkrim Bouramoul , Mohamed-Khireddine Kholladi , Bich-Liên Doan

We propose in this paper a method for measuring the similarity between ontological concepts and terms. Our metric can take into account not only the common words of two strings to compare but also other features such as the position of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Van Tien Nguyen , Christian Sallaberry , Mauro Gaio

Effective scientific communication depends on accurate citations that validate sources and guide readers to supporting evidence. Yet academic literature faces mounting challenges: semantic citation errors that misrepresent sources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sebastian Haan

Semantic textual similarity (STS) systems are designed to encode and evaluate the semantic similarity between words, phrases, sentences, and documents. One method for assessing the quality or authenticity of semantic information encoded in…

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In the realm of patent document analysis, assessing semantic similarity between phrases presents a significant challenge, notably amplifying the inherent complexities of Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) research. Firstly, this study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Liqiang Yu , Bo Liu , Qunwei Lin , Xinyu Zhao , Chang Che

Computational measures of semantic similarity between geographic terms provide valuable support across geographic information retrieval, data mining, and information integration. To date, a wide variety of approaches to geo-semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Andrea Ballatore , Michela Bertolotto , David C. Wilson

Various applications in the areas of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence employ semantic similarity to solve challenging tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, text classification, information retrieval, machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mohannad AlMousa , Rachid Benlamri , Richard Khoury

Sentiment Analysis is the task of classifying documents based on the sentiments expressed in textual form, this can be achieved by using lexical and semantic methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of semantics to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Ukachi Osisiogu

Online social networking techniques and large-scale multimedia systems are developing rapidly, which not only has brought great convenience to our daily life, but generated, collected, and stored large-scale multimedia data. This trend has…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chengyuan Zhang , Yunwu Lin , Lei Zhu , Zuping Zhang , Xinpan Yuan , Fang Huang

Code semantics similarity can be used for many tasks such as code recommendation, automated software defect correction, and clone detection. Yet, the accuracy of such systems has not yet reached a level of general purpose reliability. To…

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

We introduce SemCSE, an unsupervised method for learning semantic embeddings of scientific texts. Building on recent advances in contrastive learning for text embeddings, our approach leverages LLM-generated summaries of scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Marc Brinner , Sina Zarriess

Aiming at the problem that the current general-purpose semantic text similarity calculation methods are difficult to use the semantic information of scientific academic conference data, a semantic similarity calculation algorithm for…

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