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Distance-based unsupervised text classification is a method within text classification that leverages the semantic similarity between a label and a text to determine label relevance. This method provides numerous benefits, including fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jens Van Nooten , Andriy Kosar , Guy De Pauw , Walter Daelemans

A recent spate of state-of-the-art semi- and un-supervised solutions disentangle and encode image "content" into a spatial tensor and image appearance or "style" into a vector, to achieve good performance in spatially equivariant tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Gabriele Valvano , Agisilaos Chartsias , Alison O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Embedding words in a vector space has gained a lot of attention in recent years. While state-of-the-art methods provide efficient computation of word similarities via a low-dimensional matrix embedding, their motivation is often left…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Shihao Ji , Hyokun Yun , Pinar Yanardag , Shin Matsushima , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Hidden structural patterns in written texts have been subject of considerable research in the last decades. In particular, mapping a text into a time series of sentence lengths is a natural way to investigate text structure. Typically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Denner S. Vieira , Sergio Picoli , Renio S. Mendes

Modern text retrieval systems often provide a similarity search utility, that allows the user to find efficiently a fixed number k of documents in the data set that are most similar to a given query (here a query is either a simple sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-06-01 Filippo Geraci , Marco Pellegrini

Analyzing the pattern of semantic variation in long real-world texts such as books or transcripts is interesting from the stylistic, cognitive, and linguistic perspectives. It is also useful for applications such as text segmentation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Deven M. Mistry , Ali A. Minai

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

Quantifying the structural and functional differences of temporal networks is a fundamental and challenging problem in the era of big data. This work proposes a temporal dissimilarity measure for temporal network comparison based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zhipeng Wang , Huijuang Wang , Petter Holme , Zi-Ke Zhang

Short text clustering has become increasingly important with the popularity of social media like Twitter, Google+, and Facebook. Existing methods can be broadly categorized into two paradigms: topic model-based approaches and deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Enhao Cheng , Shoujia Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Xuemeng Song , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

A major computational burden, while performing document clustering, is the calculation of similarity measure between a pair of documents. Similarity measure is a function that assigns a real number between 0 and 1 to a pair of documents,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Muhammad Rafi , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Dense vector representations for sentences made significant progress in recent years as can be seen on sentence similarity tasks. Real-world phrase retrieval applications, on the other hand, still encounter challenges for effective use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Eyal Orbach , Lev Haikin , Nelly David , Avi Faizakof

A measure of similarity between text embeddings can be considered adequate only if it adheres to the human perception of similarity between texts. In this paper, we introduce the distance-to-distance ratio (DDR), a novel measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Abdullah Qureshi , Kenneth Rice , Alexander Wolpert

Summarizing data samples by quantitative measures has a long history, with descriptive statistics being a case in point. However, as natural language processing methods flourish, there are still insufficient characteristic metrics to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yi-An Lai , Xuan Zhu , Yi Zhang , Mona Diab

Word embedding parameters often dominate overall model sizes in neural methods for natural language processing. We reduce deployed model sizes of text classifiers by learning a hard word clustering in an end-to-end manner. We use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mingda Chen , Kevin Gimpel

How do two distributions of texts differ? Humans are slow at answering this, since discovering patterns might require tediously reading through hundreds of samples. We propose to automatically summarize the differences by "learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ruiqi Zhong , Charlie Snell , Dan Klein , Jacob Steinhardt

A key principle in assessing textual similarity is measuring the degree of semantic overlap between two texts by considering the word alignment. Such alignment-based approaches are intuitive and interpretable; however, they are empirically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sho Yokoi , Ryo Takahashi , Reina Akama , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for text classification based on clustering word embeddings, inspired by the bag of visual words model, which is widely used in computer vision. After each word in a collection of documents is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Andrei M. Butnaru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

In this paper, we present a new wrapper feature selection approach based on Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence, termed feature selection with maximum JS-divergence (FSMJ), for text categorization. Unlike most existing feature selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-22 Bo Tang , Haibo He

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

Scientific articles are long text documents organized into sections, each describing aspects of the research. Analyzing scientific production has become progressively challenging due to the increase in the number of available articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Gustavo Bartz Guedes , Ana Estela Antunes da Silva