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Manually labelling large collections of text data is a time-consuming, expensive, and laborious task, but one that is necessary to support machine learning based on text datasets. Active learning has been shown to be an effective way to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Jinghui Lu , Maeve Henchion , Brian Mac Namee

Large, pretrained language models infer powerful representations that encode rich semantic and syntactic content, albeit implicitly. In this work we introduce a novel neural language model that enforces, via inductive biases, explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ramsés J. Sánchez , Lukas Conrads , Pascal Welke , Kostadin Cvejoski , César Ojeda

Previous studies investigating the syntactic abilities of deep learning models have not targeted the relationship between the strength of the grammatical generalization and the amount of evidence to which the model is exposed during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Tristan Thrush , Ethan Wilcox , Roger Levy

This paper investigates what insights about linguistic features and what knowledge about the structure of natural language can be obtained from the encodings in transformer language models.In particular, we explore how BERT encodes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jue Hou , Anisia Katinskaia , Lari Kotilainen , Sathianpong Trangcasanchai , Anh-Duc Vu , Roman Yangarber

Word embeddings represent words in a numeric space so that semantic relations between words are represented as distances and directions in the vector space. Cross-lingual word embeddings transform vector spaces of different languages so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Marko Robnik-Sikonja , Kristjan Reba , Igor Mozetic

Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages. However, many applications, such as cross-lingual semantic search and question answering, can be largely benefited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Haochen Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for generating document embeddings using a combination of Sentence-BERT (SBERT) and RoBERTa, two state-of-the-art natural language processing models. Our approach treats sentences as tokens and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Krutika Sarode

Despite deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) demonstrate strong performance in text classification, training RNN models are often expensive and requires an extensive collection of annotated data which may not be available. To overcome the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Xueying Bai , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Language Models such as BERT have grown in popularity due to their ability to be pre-trained and perform robustly on a wide range of Natural Language Processing tasks. Often seen as an evolution over traditional word embedding techniques,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Nimesh Bhana , Terence L. van Zyl

Text embeddings are numerical representations of text data, where words, phrases, or entire documents are converted into vectors of real numbers. These embeddings capture semantic meanings and relationships between text elements in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Fusheng Wei , Robert Neary , Han Qin , Qiang Mao , Jianping Zhang

Interpretability benefits the theoretical understanding of representations. Existing word embeddings are generally dense representations. Hence, the meaning of latent dimensions is difficult to interpret. This makes word embeddings like a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Minxue Xia , Hao Zhu

Learning sentence embeddings is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. While existing research primarily focuses on enhancing the quality of sentence embeddings, the exploration of sentence embedding dimensions is limited.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hongwei Wang , Hongming Zhang , Dong Yu

Recently, there has been growing interest in the ability of Transformer-based models to produce meaningful embeddings of text with several applications, such as text similarity. Despite significant progress in the field, the explanations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Itzik Malkiel , Dvir Ginzburg , Oren Barkan , Avi Caciularu , Jonathan Weill , Noam Koenigstein

This paper studies the performances of BERT combined with tree structure in short sentence ranking task. In retrieval-based question answering system, we retrieve the most similar question of the query question by ranking all the questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

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 ubiquity of the contemporary language understanding tasks gives relevance to the development of generalized, yet highly efficient models that utilize all knowledge, provided by the data source. In this work, we present SocialBERT - the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ilia Karpov , Nick Kartashev

Sentence embedding methods offer a powerful approach for working with short textual constructs or sequences of words. By representing sentences as dense numerical vectors, many natural language processing (NLP) applications have improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yuan An , Alexander Kalinowski , Jane Greenberg

Lexical entailment, such as hyponymy, is a fundamental issue in the semantics of natural language. This paper proposes distributional semantic models which efficiently learn word embeddings for entailment, using a recently-proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 James Henderson

Word embeddings have been shown to be useful across state-of-the-art systems in many natural language processing tasks, ranging from question answering systems to dependency parsing. (Herbelot and Vecchi, 2015) explored word embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Franck Dernoncourt

Learning sentence vectors that generalise well is a challenging task. In this paper we compare three methods of learning phrase embeddings: 1) Using LSTMs, 2) using recursive nets, 3) A variant of the method 2 using the POS information of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Anson Bastos