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Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to articulate the changes in objects of interest within bi-temporal remote sensing images using natural language. Given the limitations of current RSICC methods in expressing general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods identify the most suitable meaning of a word with respect to the usage of that word in a specific context. Neural network-based WSD approaches rely on a sense-annotated corpus since they do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Sm Zobaed , Md Enamul Haque , Md Fazle Rabby , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Determining the intended sense of words in text - word sense disambiguation (WSD) - is a long standing problem in natural language processing. Recently, researchers have shown promising results using word vectors extracted from a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Dayu Yuan , Julian Richardson , Ryan Doherty , Colin Evans , Eric Altendorf

Word Mover's Distance (WMD) computes the distance between words and models text similarity with the moving cost between words in two text sequences. Yet, it does not offer good performance in sentence similarity evaluation since it does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chengwei Wei , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Speaker change detection (SCD) is an important feature that improves the readability of the recognized words from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system by breaking the word sequence into paragraphs at speaker change points. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Min Hu , Xiong Xiao , Jinyu Li

Speaker Change Detection (SCD) is to identify boundaries among speakers in a conversation. Motivated by the success of fine-tuning wav2vec 2.0 models for the SCD task, a further investigation of self-supervised learning (SSL) features for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yue Li , Xinsheng Wang , Li Zhang , Lei Xie

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) is recognized as both a crucial and challenging task in the field of image analysis. Traditional methods for SCD have predominantly relied on the comparison of image pairs. However, this approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yinhe Liu , Sunan Shi , Zhuo Zheng , Jue Wang , Shiqi Tian , Yanfei Zhong

Recent NLP architectures have illustrated in various ways how semantic change can be captured across time and domains. However, in terms of evaluation there is a lack of benchmarks to compare the performance of these systems against each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Adnan Ahmad , Kiflom Desta , Fabian Lang , Dominik Schlechtweg

Most modern computational approaches to lexical semantic change detection (LSC) rely on embedding-based distributional word representations with neural networks. Despite the strong performance on LSC benchmarks, they are often opaque. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bach Phan-Tat , Kris Heylen , Dirk Geeraerts , Stefano De Pascale , Dirk Speelman

In this paper, we describe our method for detection of lexical semantic change (i.e., word sense changes over time) for the DIACR-Ita shared task, where we ranked $1^{st}$. We examine semantic differences between specific words in two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ondřej Pražák , Pavel Přibáň , Stephen Taylor

The paper proposes a computationally feasible method for measuring context-sensitive semantic distance between words. The distance is computed by adaptive scaling of a semantic space. In the semantic space, each word in the vocabulary V is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Hideki Kozima , Akira Ito

Remote sensing Water Body Change Detection (WBCD) aims to detect water body surface changes from bi-temporal images of the same geographic area. Recently, the scarcity of high spatial resolution datasets for WBCD restricts its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Quanqing Ma , Jiaen Chen , Peng Wang , Yao Zheng , Qingzhan Zhao , Yuchen Zheng

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is a crucial component of many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. However, existing approaches typically reduce semantic nuances to a single score, limiting interpretability. To address this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Diego Miguel Lozano , Daryna Dementieva , Alexander Fraser

The Word-in-Context (WiC) task has attracted considerable attention in the NLP community, as demonstrated by the popularity of the recent MCL-WiC SemEval shared task. Systems and lexical resources from word sense disambiguation (WSD) are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak

General change detection (GCD) and semantic change detection (SCD) are common methods for identifying changes and distinguishing object categories involved in those changes, respectively. However, the binary changes provided by GCD is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yuqun Yang , Xu Tang , Xiangrong Zhang , Jingjing Ma , Licheng Jiao

Understanding the meaning of words is crucial for many tasks that involve human-machine interaction. This has been tackled by research in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Recently, WSD and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 María G. Buey , Carlos Bobed , Jorge Gracia , Eduardo Mena

This paper explores techniques that focus on understanding and resolving ambiguity in language within the field of natural language processing (NLP), highlighting the complexity of linguistic phenomena such as polysemy and homonymy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Miuru Abeysiriwardana , Deshan Sumanathilaka

While there is a large amount of research in the field of Lexical Semantic Change Detection, only few approaches go beyond a standard benchmark evaluation of existing models. In this paper, we propose a shift of focus from change detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sinan Kurtyigit , Maike Park , Dominik Schlechtweg , Jonas Kuhn , Sabine Schulte im Walde

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an NLP task aimed at determining the correct sense of a word in a sentence from discrete sense choices. Although current systems have attained unprecedented performances for such tasks, the nonuniform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Hee Suk Yoon , Eunseop Yoon , John Harvill , Sunjae Yoon , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

Word sense analysis is an essential analysis work for interpreting the linguistic and social backgrounds. The word sense change detection is a task of identifying and interpreting shifts in word meanings over time. This paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kensuke Mitsuzawa