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Computational measures of semantic similarity between geographic terms provide valuable support across geographic information retrieval, data mining, and information integration. To date, a wide variety of approaches to geo-semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Andrea Ballatore , Michela Bertolotto , David C. Wilson

Recent advances in cross-lingual word embeddings have primarily relied on mapping-based methods, which project pretrained word embeddings from different languages into a shared space through a linear transformation. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ali Sabet , Prakhar Gupta , Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Robert West , Martin Jaggi

We experiment with new methods for learning how related words are positioned relative to each other in word embedding spaces. Previous approaches learned constant vector offsets: vectors that point from source tokens to target tokens with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Noel Kennedy , Imogen Schofield , Dave C. Brodbelt , David B. Church , Dan G. O'Neill

The recent success of distributed word representations has led to an increased interest in analyzing the properties of their spatial distribution. Several studies have suggested that contextualized word embedding models do not isotropically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 William Rudman , Nate Gillman , Taylor Rayne , Carsten Eickhoff

Requirement traceability is the process of identifying the inter-dependencies between requirements. It poses a significant challenge when conducted manually, especially when dealing with requirements at various levels of abstraction. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Baher Mohammad , Riad Sonbol , Ghaida Rebdawi

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, which prescribe what the proximity of image and text should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

We prove that the sequence of cones of metric measure spaces converges if the sequence of base spaces converges in Gromov's box, concentration, and weak topologies. As an application, we show that the generalized Cauchy distribution with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Syota Esaki , Daisuke Kazukawa , Ayato Mitsuishi

Detecting semantic similarities between sentences is still a challenge today due to the ambiguity of natural languages. In this work, we propose a simple approach to identifying semantically similar questions by combining the strengths of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yoan Dimitrov

Modern language models generate chain-of-thought traces by autoregressively sampling tokens from a finite vocabulary. While this discrete sampling has achieved remarkable success, conducting chain-of-thought with continuously-valued tokens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Halil Alperen Gozeten , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Xuechen Zhang , Hrayr Harutyunyan , Ankit Singh Rawat , Samet Oymak

Modelling semantic similarity plays a fundamental role in lexical semantic applications. A natural way of calculating semantic similarity is to access handcrafted semantic networks, but similarity prediction can also be anticipated in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dongqiang Yang , Yanqin Yin

The co-occurrence association is widely observed in many empirical data. Mining the information in co-occurrence data is essential for advancing our understanding of systems such as social networks, ecosystem, and brain network. Measuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaomeng Wang , Yijun Ran , Tao Jia

Semantic similarity between natural language texts is typically measured either by looking at the overlap between subsequences (e.g., BLEU) or by using embeddings (e.g., BERTScore, S-BERT). Within this paper, we argue that when we are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Steffen Herbold

The inclusion of semantic information in any similarity measures improves the efficiency of the similarity measure and provides human interpretable results for further analysis. The similarity calculation method that focuses on features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Pinky Sitikhu , Kritish Pahi , Pujan Thapa , Subarna Shakya

To measure the similarity of two documents in the bag-of-words (BoW) vector representation, different term weighting schemes are used to improve the performance of cosine similarity---the most widely used inter-document similarity measure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Sunil Aryal , Kai Ming Ting , Takashi Washio , Gholamreza Haffari

Audio captioning quality metrics which are typically borrowed from the machine translation and image captioning areas measure the degree of overlap between predicted tokens and gold reference tokens. In this work, we consider a metric…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

This paper investigates contextual word representation models from the lens of similarity analysis. Given a collection of trained models, we measure the similarity of their internal representations and attention. Critically, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 John M. Wu , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

Current cross-modal retrieval systems are evaluated using R@K measure which does not leverage semantic relationships rather strictly follows the manually marked image text query pairs. Therefore, current systems do not generalize well for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Ignazio Gallo , Arif Mahmood , Alessandro Calefati , Faisal Shafait

Medical language processing and deep learning techniques have emerged as critical tools for improving healthcare, particularly in the analysis of medical imaging and medical text data. These multimodal data fusion techniques help to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Sayeh Gholipour Picha , Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

Consider a continuous word embedding model. Usually, the cosines between word vectors are used as a measure of similarity of words. These cosines do not change under orthogonal transformations of the embedding space. We demonstrate that,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Alexey Zobnin

Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways. This variability is particularly valuable for in-the-wild multimodal retrieval, where the objective is to identify the corresponding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Fan Xu , Luis A. Leiva