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Word and sentence embeddings are useful feature representations in natural language processing. However, intrinsic evaluation for embeddings lags far behind, and there has been no significant update since the past decade. Word and sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Haizhou Li

Querying over XML elements using keyword search is steadily gaining popularity. The traditional similarity measure is widely employed in order to effectively retrieve various XML documents. A number of authors have already proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Yang Wang , Zhikui Chen , Xiaodi Huang

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of available data produced from various sources with different topics. The availability of this enormous data necessitates us to adopt effective computational tools to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Mina Samizadeh

Result relevance scoring is critical to e-commerce search user experience. Traditional information retrieval methods focus on keyword matching and hand-crafted or counting-based numeric features, with limited understanding of item semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Rui Li , Wen-Yun Yang , Guoyu Tang , Chaoyi Ma , Yun Xiao , Eric Zhao

Software-related platforms have enabled their users to collaboratively label software entities with topics. Tagging software repositories with relevant topics can be exploited for facilitating various downstream tasks. For instance, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Maliheh Izadi , Mahtab Nejati , Abbas Heydarnoori

Current video retrieval efforts all found their evaluation on an instance-based assumption, that only a single caption is relevant to a query video and vice versa. We demonstrate that this assumption results in performance comparisons often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Michael Wray , Hazel Doughty , Dima Damen

The core challenge in numerous real-world applications is to match an inquiry to the best document from a mutable and finite set of candidates. Existing industry solutions, especially latency-constrained services, often rely on similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xiaofeng Zhu , Thomas Lin , Vishal Anand , Matthew Calderwood , Eric Clausen-Brown , Gord Lueck , Wen-wai Yim , Cheng Wu

Finding concepts in large clinical ontologies can be challenging when queries use different vocabularies. A search algorithm that overcomes this problem is useful in applications such as concept normalisation and ontology matching, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Duy-Hoa Ngo , Madonna Kemp , Donna Truran , Bevan Koopman , Alejandro Metke-Jimenez

The existing information retrieval techniques do not consider the context of the keywords present in the user's queries. Therefore, the search engines sometimes do not provide sufficient information to the users. New methods based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-28 M. Barathi , S. Valli

Similarity is a comparative-subjective measure that varies with the domain within which it is considered. In several NLP applications such as document classification, pattern recognition, chatbot question-answering, sentiment analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Manuela Nayantara Jeyaraj , Dharshana Kasthurirathna

As Web sites are now ordinary products, it is necessary to explicit the notion of quality of a Web site. The quality of a site may be linked to the easiness of accessibility and also to other criteria such as the fact that the site is up to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thierry Despeyroux

The ability to compare the semantic similarity between text corpora is important in a variety of natural language processing applications. However, standard methods for evaluating these metrics have yet to be established. We propose a set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 George Kour , Samuel Ackerman , Orna Raz , Eitan Farchi , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

The article presents an online relevancy tuning method using explicit user feedback. The author developed and tested a method of words' weights modification based on search result evaluation by user. User decides whether the result is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Mark Tylevich

Automatic evaluation of hashtag recommendation models is a fundamental task in many online social network systems. In the traditional evaluation method, the recommended hashtags from an algorithm are firstly compared with the ground truth…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Areej Alsini , Du Q. Huynh , Amitava Datta

Establishing semantic correspondence is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match keypoints with the same semantic information across different images. Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, remarkable progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kaiyan Zhang , Xinghui Li , Jingyi Lu , Kai Han

Despite remarkable advances in Large Language Model capabilities, tool retrieval for agent-based systems remains fundamentally limited by reliance on semantic similarity, which fails to capture functional viability. Current methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zongze Wu , Yani Guo , Churong Liang , Runnan Li

With the ever-increasing quantity and variety of data worldwide, the Web has become a rich repository of mathematical formulae. This necessitates the creation of robust and scalable systems for Mathematical Information Retrieval, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Richard Zanibbi , Kenny Davila , Andrew Kane , Frank Tompa

The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragments convey, and the pairwise relations between their words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 George Tsatsaronis , Iraklis Varlamis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Large language models can now directly generate answers to many factual questions without referencing external sources. Unfortunately, relatively little attention has been paid to methods for evaluating the quality and correctness of these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Negar Arabzadeh , Amin Bigdeli , Charles L. A. Clarke

Artificial Intelligence federates numerous scientific fields in the aim of developing machines able to assist human operators performing complex treatments -- most of which demand high cognitive skills (e.g. learning or decision processes).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sébastien Harispe , Sylvie Ranwez , Stefan Janaqi , Jacky Montmain