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Ambiguity is an intrinsic feature of natural language. Managing ambiguity is a key part of human language understanding, allowing us to anticipate misunderstanding as communicators and revise our interpretations as listeners. As language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Alisa Liu , Zhaofeng Wu , Julian Michael , Alane Suhr , Peter West , Alexander Koller , Swabha Swayamdipta , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi

Word embeddings are trained to predict word cooccurrence statistics, which leads them to possess different lexical properties (syntactic, semantic, etc.) depending on the notion of context defined at training time. These properties manifest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jingyi He , KC Tsiolis , Kian Kenyon-Dean , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Human language, while aimed at conveying meaning, inherently carries ambiguity. It poses challenges for speech and language processing, but also serves crucial communicative functions. Efficiently solve ambiguity is both a desired and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Pablo Ortega , Jordi Luque , Luis Lamiable , Rodrigo López , Richard Benjamins

Cross-lingual word embeddings aim to bridge the gap between high-resource and low-resource languages by allowing to learn multilingual word representations even without using any direct bilingual signal. The lion's share of the methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Magdalena Biesialska , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Most state-of-the-art approaches for named-entity recognition (NER) use semi supervised information in the form of word clusters and lexicons. Recently neural network-based language models have been explored, as they as a byproduct generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Alexandre Passos , Vineet Kumar , Andrew McCallum

Answer selection aims at identifying the correct answer for a given question from a set of potentially correct answers. Contrary to previous works, which typically focus on the semantic similarity between a question and its answer, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Aissatou Diallo , Markus Zopf , Johannes Fürnkranz

Distributional text clustering delivers semantically informative representations and captures the relevance between each word and semantic clustering centroids. We extend the neural text clustering approach to text classification tasks by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yekun Chai , Haidong Zhang , Shuo Jin

Word embeddings have gained significant attention as learnable representations of semantic relations between words, and have been shown to improve upon the results of traditional word representations. However, little effort has been devoted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Gloria Feher , Andreas Spitz , Michael Gertz

The web is loaded with textual content, and Natural Language Processing is a standout amongst the most vital fields in Machine Learning. But when data is huge simple Machine Learning algorithms are not able to handle it and that is when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Debadri Dutta

Distilling knowledge from a well-trained cumbersome network to a small one has recently become a new research topic, as lightweight neural networks with high performance are particularly in need in various resource-restricted systems. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Lili Mou , Ran Jia , Yan Xu , Ge Li , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a sentence given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Yevgeni Berzak , Andrei Barbu , Daniel Harari , Boris Katz , Shimon Ullman

Learning vector representation for words is an important research field which may benefit many natural language processing tasks. Two limitations exist in nearly all available models, which are the bias caused by the context definition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xuefeng Yang , Kezhi Mao

Word embedding, a high-dimensional (HD) numerical representation of words generated by machine learning models, has been used for different natural language processing tasks, e.g., translation between two languages. Recently, there has been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyu Li , Junpeng Wang , Yan Zheng , Liang Wang , Wei Zhang , Han-Wei Shen

Deep Learning and Machine Learning based models have become extremely popular in text processing and information retrieval. However, the non-linear structures present inside the networks make these models largely inscrutable. A significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sourav Saha , Debapriyo Majumdar , Mandar Mitra

The paper reports our participation in the shared task on word sense induction and disambiguation for the Russian language (RUSSE-2018). Our team was ranked 2nd for the wiki-wiki dataset (containing mostly homonyms) and 5th for the bts-rnc…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Andrey Kutuzov

Text classification is a crucial task encountered frequently in practical scenarios, yet it is still under-explored in the era of large language models (LLMs). This study shows that LLMs are vulnerable to changes in the number and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhenyi Lu , Jie Tian , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Wenfeng xie , Dangyang Chen

In the new era of internet systems and applications, a concept of detecting distinguished topics from huge amounts of text has gained a lot of attention. These methods use representation of text in a numerical format -- called embeddings --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Danial Toufani-Movaghar , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi

Phonetic ambiguity and confusibility are bugbears for any form of bottom-up or data-driven approach to language processing. The question of when an input is ``close enough'' to a target word pervades the entire problem spaces of speech…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Patrick Juola

Word embeddings are powerful representations that form the foundation of many natural language processing architectures, both in English and in other languages. To gain further insight into word embeddings, we explore their stability (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Laura Burdick , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Rada Mihalcea

Understanding human language has been a sub-challenge on the way of intelligent machines. The study of meaning in natural language processing (NLP) relies on the distributional hypothesis where language elements get meaning from the words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Erhan Sezerer , Selma Tekir