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We give several modifications of the Goulden-Jackson Cluster method for finding generating functions for words avoiding a given set of forbidden words. Our modifications include functions which can take into account various 'weights' on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-29 Elizabeth J. Kupin , Debbie S. Yuster

The Goulden-Jackson cluster method is a powerful tool for obtaining generating functions for counting words in a free monoid by occurrences of a set of subwords. We introduce a generalization of the cluster method for monoid networks, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Yan Zhuang

The Goulden-Jackson cluster method is a powerful tool for counting words by occurrences of prescribed subwords, and was adapted by Elizalde and Noy for counting permutations by occurrences of prescribed consecutive patterns. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Yan Zhuang

We find generating functions for the number of words avoiding certain patterns or sets of patterns on at most 2 distinct letters and determine which of them are equally avoided. We also find the exact number of words avoiding certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burstein , Toufik Mansour

Clustering a lexicon of words is a well-studied problem in natural language processing (NLP). Word clusters are used to deal with sparse data in statistical language processing, as well as features for solving various NLP tasks (text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Effi Levi , Saggy Herman , Ari Rappoport

We describe and experimentally evaluate a method for automatically clustering words according to their distribution in particular syntactic contexts. Deterministic annealing is used to find lowest distortion sets of clusters. As the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Fernando Pereira , Naftali Tishby , Lillian Lee

Statistical language models frequently suffer from a lack of training data. This problem can be alleviated by clustering, because it reduces the number of free parameters that need to be trained. However, clustered models have the following…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Joerg P. Ueberla

Natural language processing area is still under research. But now a day it is on platform for worldwide researchers. Natural language processing includes analyzing the language based on its structure and then tagging of each word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Miral Patel , Prem Balani

We present {\em generative clustering} (GC) for clustering a set of documents, $\mathrm{X}$, by using texts $\mathrm{Y}$ generated by large language models (LLMs) instead of by clustering the original documents $\mathrm{X}$. Because LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xin Du , Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Determining the number of clusters is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Several algorithms have been proposed, including centroid-based algorithms using the Euclidean distance and model-based algorithms using a mixture of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

Multiple-choice cloze questions are commonly used to assess linguistic proficiency and comprehension. However, generating high-quality distractors remains challenging, as existing methods often lack adaptability and control over difficulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Seokhoon Kang , Yejin Jeon , Seonjeong Hwang , Gary Geunbae Lee

Clustering is one of the main tasks in exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics where the main objective is partitioning observations in groups. Clustering has a broad range of application in varied domains like climate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Saptarsi Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti

The k-means algorithm is a partitional clustering method. Over 60 years old, it has been successfully used for a variety of problems. The popularity of k-means is in large part a consequence of its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Ognjen Arandjelovic

The challenge of clustering short text data lies in balancing informativeness with interpretability. Traditional evaluation metrics often overlook this trade-off. Inspired by linguistic principles of communicative efficiency, this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Justin Miller , Tristram Alexander

We consider the problem of learning overcomplete dictionaries in the context of sparse coding, where each sample selects a sparse subset of dictionary elements. Our main result is a strategy to approximately recover the unknown dictionary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-08 Alekh Agarwal , Animashree Anandkumar , Praneeth Netrapalli

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

In this work, we combine the research on (absent) scattered factors with the one of jumbled words. For instance, $\mathtt{wolf}$ is an absent scattered factor of $\mathtt{cauliflower}$ but since $\mathtt{lfow}$, a jumbled (or abelian)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Pamela Fleischmann , Annika Huch , Melf Kammholz , Tore Koß

Text clustering holds significant value across various domains due to its ability to identify patterns and group related information. Current approaches which rely heavily on a computed similarity measure between documents are often limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Laurence Hirsch , Robin Hirsch , Bayode Ogunleye

A huge number of multi-participant dialogues happen online every day, which leads to difficulty in understanding the nature of dialogue dynamics for both humans and machines. Dialogue disentanglement aims at separating an entangled dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jingsheng Gao , Zeyu Li , Suncheng Xiang , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Brown clustering is a hard, hierarchical, bottom-up clustering of words in a vocabulary. Words are assigned to clusters based on their usage pattern in a given corpus. The resulting clusters and hierarchical structure can be used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Manuel R. Ciosici
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