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Because high-quality data is like oxygen for AI systems, effectively eliciting information from crowdsourcing workers has become a first-order problem for developing high-performance machine learning algorithms. Two prevalent paradigms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Shengwei Xu , Yichi Zhang , Paul Resnick , Grant Schoenebeck

Traditional information retrieval systems rely on keywords to index documents and queries. In such systems, documents are retrieved based on the number of shared keywords with the query. This lexical-focused retrieval leads to inaccurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Fatiha Boubekeur , Wassila Azzoug

Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. However, as tags are informally defined, continually changing, and ungoverned, it has often been criticised for lowering, rather than…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Giovanni Quattrone , Licia Capra , Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Domenico Ursino

In this note, we present a novel measure of similarity between two functions. It quantifies how the sub-optimality gaps of two functions convert to each other, and unifies several existing notions of functional similarity. We show that it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Chengpiao Huang , Kaizheng Wang

Generative Large Language Models enable efficient analytics across knowledge domains, rivalling human experts in information comparisons. However, the applications of LLMs for information comparisons face scalability challenges due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Truman Yuen , Graham A. Watt , Yuri Lawryshyn

Semantic communication, as a revolutionary communication architecture, is considered a promising novel communication paradigm. Unlike traditional symbol-based error-free communication systems, semantic-based visual communication systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

We present a supervised learning algorithm for text categorization which has brought the team of authors the 2nd place in the text categorization division of the 2012 Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC'2012) and a 3rd prize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Hubert Haoyang Duan , Vladimir Pestov , Varun Singla

Analogical reasoning depends fundamentally on the ability to learn and generalize about relations between objects. We develop an approach to relational learning which, given a set of pairs of objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-30 Ricardo Silva , Katherine Heller , Zoubin Ghahramani , Edoardo M. Airoldi

Quantifying the similarity between datasets has widespread applications in statistics and machine learning. The performance of a predictive model on novel datasets, referred to as generalizability, depends on how similar the training and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-18 Marieke Stolte , Franziska Kappenberg , Jörg Rahnenführer , Andrea Bommert

Information Retrieval (IR) plays a pivotal role in diverse Software Engineering (SE) tasks, e.g., bug localization and triaging, code retrieval, requirements analysis, etc. The choice of similarity measure is the core component of an IR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Md Masudur Rahman , Saikat Chakraborty , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Recent work has attempted to characterize the structure of semantic memory and the search algorithms which, together, best approximate human patterns of search revealed in a semantic fluency task. There are a number of models that seek to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Filip Miscevic , Aida Nematzadeh , Suzanne Stevenson

Quantifying the semantic similarity between database queries is a critical challenge with broad applications, ranging from query log analysis to automated educational assessment of SQL skills. Traditional methods often rely solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Leo Köberlein , Dominik Probst , Richard Lenz

Classic lexical-matching-based QA metrics are slowly being phased out because they punish succinct or informative outputs just because those answers were not provided as ground truth. Recently proposed neural metrics can evaluate semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Albert Huang

We present information value, a measure which quantifies the predictability of an utterance relative to a set of plausible alternatives. We introduce a method to obtain interpretable estimates of information value using neural text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mario Giulianelli , Sarenne Wallbridge , Raquel Fernández

We present a novel AI-based ideation assistant and evaluate it in a user study with a group of innovators. The key contribution of our work is twofold: we propose a method of idea exploration in a constrained domain by means of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Thomas Sandholm , Sarah Dong , Sayandev Mukherjee , John Feland , Bernardo A. Huberman

With the increase of information, document classification as one of the methods of text mining, plays vital role in many management and organizing information. Document classification is the process of assigning a document to one or more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Saeed Parseh , Ahmad Baraani

We introduce two reference-free metrics for quality evaluation of taxonomies in the absence of labels. The first metric evaluates robustness by calculating the correlation between semantic and taxonomic similarity, addressing error types…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Pascal Wullschleger , Majid Zarharan , Donnacha Daly , Marc Pouly , Jennifer Foster

In this paper, we advocate Tversky's ratio model as an appropriate basis for computational approaches to semantic similarity, that is, the comparison of objects such as images in a semantically meaningful way. We consider the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Javad Rahnama , Eyke Hüllermeier

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

This paper focuses on enhancing the captions generated by image-caption generation systems. We propose an approach for improving caption generation systems by choosing the most closely related output to the image rather than the most likely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ahmed Sabir