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Word sense induction (WSI) is the problem of grouping occurrences of an ambiguous word according to the expressed sense of this word. Recently a new approach to this task was proposed, which generates possible substitutes for the ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Nikolay Arefyev , Boris Sheludko , Tatiana Aleksashina

Boosting algorithms have been widely used to tackle a plethora of problems. In the last few years, a lot of approaches have been proposed to provide standard AdaBoost with cost-sensitive capabilities, each with a different focus. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Iago Landesa-Vázquez , José Luis Alba-Castro

We propose to take on the problem ofWord Sense Disambiguation (WSD). In language, words of the same form can take different meanings depending on context. While humans easily infer the meaning or gloss of such words by their context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Nikhil Patel , James Hale , Kanika Jindal , Apoorva Sharma , Yichun Yu

Natural Language Understanding has seen an increasing number of publications in the last few years, especially after robust word embeddings models became prominent, when they proved themselves able to capture and represent semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Terry Ruas , William Grosky , Akiko Aizawa

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to identify the correct meaning of polysemous words in the particular context. Lexical resources like WordNet which are proved to be of great help for WSD in the knowledge-based methods. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Fuli Luo , Tianyu Liu , Qiaolin Xia , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Recently, Yuan et al. (2016) have shown the effectiveness of using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for performing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Their proposed technique outperformed the previous state-of-the-art with several benchmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Minh Le , Marten Postma , Jacopo Urbani

The concept of boosting emerged from the field of machine learning. The basic idea is to boost the accuracy of a weak classifying tool by combining various instances into a more accurate prediction. This general concept was later adapted to…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-19 Andreas Mayr , Harald Binder , Olaf Gefeller , Matthias Schmid

Boosting is a well-known method for improving the accuracy of weak learners in machine learning. However, its theoretical generalization guarantee is missing in literature. In this paper, we propose an efficient boosting method with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jinshan Zeng , Min Zhang , Shao-Bo Lin

Recognition of uncommon words such as names and technical terminology is important to understanding conversations in context. However, the ability to recognise such words remains a challenge in modern automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Namkyu Jung , Geonmin Kim , Joon Son Chung

Imbalanced dataset is occurred due to uneven distribution of data available in the real world such as disposition of complaints on government offices in Bandung. Consequently, multi-label text categorization algorithms may not produce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Genta Indra Winata , Masayu Leylia Khodra

AdaBoost is a classic boosting algorithm for combining multiple inaccurate classifiers produced by a weak learner, to produce a strong learner with arbitrarily high accuracy when given enough training data. Determining the optimal number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen , Martin Ritzert

Biomedical word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an important intermediate task in many natural language processing applications such as named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, and relation extraction. In this paper, we employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 A. K. M. Sabbir , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Ramakanth Kavuluru

Humans often make creative use of words to express novel senses. A long-standing effort in natural language processing has been focusing on word sense disambiguation (WSD), but little has been explored about how the sense inventory of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Lei Yu , Yang Xu

We offer a novel view of AdaBoost in a statistical setting. We propose a Bayesian model for binary classification in which label noise is modeled hierarchically. Using variational inference to optimize a dynamic evidence lower bound, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-09-11 Alexander Lorbert , David M. Blei , Robert E. Schapire , Peter J. Ramadge

The problem of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is considered in the article. Given a set of synonyms (synsets) and sentences with these synonyms. It is necessary to select the meaning of the word in the sentence automatically. 1285…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Alexander Kirillov , Natalia Krizhanovsky , Andrew Krizhanovsky

We present a principled framework to address resource allocation for realizing boosting algorithms on substrates with communication or computation noise. Boosting classifiers (e.g., AdaBoost) make a final decision via a weighted vote from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yongjune Kim , Yuval Cassuto , Lav R. Varshney

Boosting is known to be sensitive to label noise. We studied two approaches to improve AdaBoost's robustness against labelling errors. One is to employ a label-noise robust classifier as a base learner, while the other is to modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Jakramate Bootkrajang , Ata Kaban

Enhancing word usage is a desired feature for writing assistance. To further advance research in this area, this paper introduces "Smart Word Suggestions" (SWS) task and benchmark. Unlike other works, SWS emphasizes end-to-end evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Chenshuo Wang , Shaoguang Mao , Tao Ge , Wenshan Wu , Xun Wang , Yan Xia , Jonathan Tien , Dongyan Zhao

Speech enhancement tasks have seen significant improvements with the advance of deep learning technology, but with the cost of increased computational complexity. In this study, we propose an adaptive boosting approach to learning locality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Sunwoo Kim , Haici Yang , Minje Kim

In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised algorithm for word sense disambiguation (WSD) at the document level. Our algorithm is inspired by a widely-used approach in the field of genetics for whole genome sequencing, known as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Andrei M. Butnaru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Florentina Hristea