English
Related papers

Related papers: Goal-Driven Explainable Clustering via Language De…

200 papers

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach for learning to cluster in the absence of labeled examples. Our clustering objective is based on optimizing normalized cuts, a criterion which measures both intra-cluster similarity as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised task that employs a limited amount of labelled data, formulated as constraints, to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and to significantly improve clustering accuracy. Previous work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Pouya Shati , Eldan Cohen , Sheila McIlraith

Data clustering is a common unsupervised learning method frequently used in exploratory data analysis. However, identifying relevant structures in unlabeled, high-dimensional data is nontrivial, requiring iterative experimentation with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Marco Cavallo , Çağatay Demiralp

Unsupervised concept identification through clustering, i.e., identification of semantically related words and phrases, is a common approach to identify contextual primitives employed in various use cases, e.g., text dimension reduction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Anastasia Zhukova , Felix Hamborg , Karsten Donnay , Bela Gipp

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. Existing methods simply divide this task into two steps: summarization and translation, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Junnan Zhu , Qian Wang , Yining Wang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Chengqing Zong

In a knowledge discovery process, interpretation and evaluation of the mined results are indispensable in practice. In the case of data clustering, however, it is often difficult to see in what aspect each cluster has been formed. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-01 Yoshitaka Kameya , Satoru Nakamura , Tatsuya Iwasaki , Taisuke Sato

Identifying new user intents is an essential task in the dialogue system. However, it is hard to get satisfying clustering results since the definition of intents is strongly guided by prior knowledge. Existing methods incorporate prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ting-En Lin , Hua Xu , Hanlei Zhang

Clustering is one of the main tasks in exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics where the main objective is partitioning observations in groups. Clustering has a broad range of application in varied domains like climate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Saptarsi Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti

Online forums encourage the exchange and discussion of different stances on many topics. Not only do they provide an opportunity to present one's own arguments, but may also gather a broad cross-section of others' arguments. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Shahbaz Syed , Dominik Schwabe , Khalid Al-Khatib , Martin Potthast

Text clustering and topic extraction are two important tasks in text mining. Usually, these two tasks are performed separately. For topic extraction to facilitate clustering, we can first project texts into a topic space and then perform a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Zhongtao Chen , Chenghu Mi , Siwei Duo , Jingfei He , Yatong Zhou

Clustering traditionally aims to reveal a natural grouping structure within unlabeled data. However, this structure may not always align with users' preferences. In this paper, we propose a personalized clustering method that explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiwen Geng , Suyun Zhao , Yixin Yu , Borui Peng , Pan Du , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Mengdie Wang

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning, but most existing methods heavily rely on hyperparameters such as the number of clusters or other sensitive settings, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Lijun Zhang , Suyuan Liu , Siwei Wang , Shengju Yu , Xueling Zhu , Miaomiao Li , Xinwang Liu

The avalanche quantity of the information developed by mankind has led to concept of automation of knowledge extraction - Data Mining ([1]). This direction is connected with a wide spectrum of problems - from recognition of the fuzzy set to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-06-05 A. A. Shumeyko , S. L. Sotnik

With the wide adoption of black-box models, instance-based \emph{post hoc} explanation tools, such as LIME and SHAP became increasingly popular. These tools produce explanations, pinpointing contributions of key features associated with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Timen Stepišnik Perdih , Nada Lavrač , Blaž Škrlj

This paper (cmp-lg/yymmnnn) has been accepted for publication in the student session of EACL-95. It outlines ongoing work using statistical and unsupervised neural network methods for clustering words in untagged corpora. Such approaches…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Christopher C. Huckle

General-purpose embedding models excel at recognizing semantic similarities but fail to capture the characteristics of texts specified by user instructions. In contrast, instruction-tuned embedders can align embeddings with textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Peijun Qing , Puneet Mathur , Nedim Lipka , Varun Manjunatha , Ryan Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt , Saeed Hassanpour , Soroush Vosoughi

People often give instructions whose meaning is ambiguous without further context, expecting that their actions or goals will disambiguate their intentions. How can we build assistive agents that follow such instructions in a flexible,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Tan Zhi-Xuan , Lance Ying , Vikash Mansinghka , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We investigate the problem of segmenting unlabeled speech into word-like units and clustering these to create a lexicon. Prior work can be categorized into two frameworks. Bottom-up methods first determine boundaries and then cluster the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Simon Malan , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

Like humans, document summarization models can interpret a document's contents in a number of ways. Unfortunately, the neural models of today are largely black boxes that provide little explanation of how or why they generated a summary in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wang Haonan , Gao Yang , Bai Yu , Mirella Lapata , Huang Heyan

Text clustering methods were traditionally incorporated into multi-document summarization (MDS) as a means for coping with considerable information repetition. Particularly, clusters were leveraged to indicate information saliency as well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ori Ernst , Avi Caciularu , Ori Shapira , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal , Jacob Goldberger , Ido Dagan