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Most of the time, the first step to learn word embeddings is to build a word co-occurrence matrix. As such matrices are equivalent to graphs, complex networks theory can naturally be used to deal with such data. In this paper, we consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Nicolas Dugué , Victor Connes

Sentence embedding tasks are important in natural language processing (NLP), but improving their performance while keeping them reliable is still hard. This paper presents a framework that combines pseudo-label generation and model ensemble…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ziwei Liu , Qi Zhang , Lifu Gao

Scientific paper retrieval, particularly framed as document-to-document retrieval, aims to identify relevant papers in response to a long-form query paper, rather than a short query string. Previous approaches to this task have focused…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sangwoo Park , Jinheon Baek , Soyeong Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

The recent advance in neural network architecture and training algorithms have shown the effectiveness of representation learning. The neural network-based models generate better representation than the traditional ones. They have the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zhang Zuping , Mohammed Nadher

Information retrieval plays a crucial role in resource localization. Current dense retrievers retrieve the relevant documents within a corpus via embedding similarities, which compute similarities between dense vectors mainly depending on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ganlin Xu , Zhoujia Zhang , Wangyi Mei , Jiaqing Liang , Weijia Lu , Xiaodong Zhang , Zhifei Yang , Xiaofeng Ma , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Recent advances of preservation technologies have led to an increasing number of Web archive systems and collections. These collections are valuable to explore the past of the Web, but their value can only be uncovered with effective access…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Khoi Duy Vo , Tuan Tran , Tu Ngoc Nguyen , Xiaofei Zhu , Wolfgang Nejdl

In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), we revisit the well-known word embedding algorithm word2vec. Word embeddings identify words by vectors such that the words' distributional similarity is captured. Unexpectedly, besides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tobias Eichinger

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language model reliability by grounding generated responses in external evidence. However, RAG performance depends on the relevance of retrieved passages, the quality of evidence ranking,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fariba Afrin Irany , Sampson Akwafuo

We present a methodology combining surface NLP and Machine Learning techniques for ranking asbtracts and generating summaries based on annotated corpora. The corpora were annotated with meta-semantic tags indicating the category of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan , Fernandez Silvia , Sanjuan Eric , Charton Eric

Existing approaches for open-domain question answering (QA) are typically designed for questions that require either single-hop or multi-hop reasoning, which make strong assumptions of the complexity of questions to be answered. Also,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ping Nie , Yuyu Zhang , Arun Ramamurthy , Le Song

Text classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of texts. In the process of training, word embeddings occupy a large part of parameters. Under the limitation of limited computing resources, it indirectly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Hao Ren , Hong Lu

We introduce word vectors for the construction domain. Our vectors were obtained by running word2vec on an 11M-word corpus that we created from scratch by leveraging freely-accessible online sources of construction-related text. We first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Antoine J. -P. Tixier , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Matthew R. Hallowell

Generative models for Information Retrieval, where ranking of documents is viewed as the task of generating a query from a document's language model, were very successful in various IR tasks in the past. However, with the advent of modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Xiaofei Ma , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

In this paper, I present a novel method to detect intellectual influence across a large corpus. Taking advantage of the unique affordances of large language models in encoding semantic and structural meaning while remaining robust to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lucian Li

Finding semantically rich and computer-understandable representations for textual dialogues, utterances and words is crucial for dialogue systems (or conversational agents), as their performance mostly depends on understanding the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Alexander Bartl , Gerasimos Spanakis

Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Yuan Zhang , Dong Wang , Yan Zhang

The counting grid is a grid of microtopics, sparse word/feature distributions. The generative model associated with the grid does not use these microtopics individually. Rather, it groups them in overlapping rectangular windows and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-09 Nebojsa Jojic , Alessandro Perina , Dongwoo Kim

The Hypencoder, proposed by Killingback et al., is a retrieval framework that replaces the fixed inner-product scoring function used in standard bi-encoders with a query-specific neural network (the $q$-net), whose weights are generated by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Arne Eichholtz , Yongkang Li , Jutte Vijverberg , Tobias Groot , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Mind-map generation aims to process a document into a hierarchical structure to show its central idea and branches. Such a manner is more conducive to understanding the logic and semantics of the document than plain text. Recently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhuowei Zhang , Mengting Hu , Yinhao Bai , Zhen Zhang

Review rating prediction of text reviews is a rapidly growing technology with a wide range of applications in natural language processing. However, most existing methods either use hand-crafted features or learn features using deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhongfen Deng , Hao Peng , Congying Xia , Jianxin Li , Lifang He , Philip S. Yu