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Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language processing, temporal relation classification remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Sousa , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

There is no consensus on the state-of-the-art approach to historical text normalization. Many techniques have been proposed, including rule-based methods, distance metrics, character-based statistical machine translation, and neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Marcel Bollmann

Degraded text recognition is a difficult task. Given a noisy text image, a word recognizer can be applied to generate several candidates for each word image. High-level knowledge sources can then be used to select a decision from the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Tao Hong

We use an information-theoretic measure of linguistic similarity to investigate the organization and evolution of scientific fields. An analysis of almost 20M papers from the past three decades reveals that the linguistic similarity is…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Laercio Dias , Martin Gerlach , Joachim Scharloth , Eduardo G. Altmann

This article demontrates that we can apply deep learning to text understanding from character-level inputs all the way up to abstract text concepts, using temporal convolutional networks (ConvNets). We apply ConvNets to various large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Xiang Zhang , Yann LeCun

In this paper, we describe our method for detection of lexical semantic change (i.e., word sense changes over time) for the DIACR-Ita shared task, where we ranked $1^{st}$. We examine semantic differences between specific words in two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ondřej Pražák , Pavel Přibáň , Stephen Taylor

We propose a new similarity measure between texts which, contrary to the current state-of-the-art approaches, takes a global view of the texts to be compared. We have implemented a tool to compute our textual distance and conducted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Uli Fahrenberg , Fabrizio Biondi , Kevin Corre , Cyrille Jegourel , Simon Kongshøj , Axel Legay

Word embeddings are effective intermediate representations for capturing semantic regularities between words, when learning the representations of text sequences. We propose to view text classification as a label-word joint embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Guoyin Wang , Chunyuan Li , Wenlin Wang , Yizhe Zhang , Dinghan Shen , Xinyuan Zhang , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Word co-occurrence networks have been employed to analyze texts both in the practical and theoretical scenarios. Despite the relative success in several applications, traditional co-occurrence networks fail in establishing links between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Laura V. C. Quispe , Jorge A. V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

In the sentence classification task, context formed from sentences adjacent to the sentence being classified can provide important information for classification. This context is, however, often ignored. Where methods do make use of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xingyi Song , Johann Petrak , Angus Roberts

Intertextuality is a central tenet in literary studies. It refers to the intricate links between literary texts that are created by various types of references. This paper proposes a new quantitative model of intertextuality to enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yi Xing

Earlier techniques of text mining included algorithms like k-means, Naive Bayes, SVM which classify and cluster the text document for mining relevant information about the documents. The need for improving the mining techniques has us…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Jinju Joby , Jyothi Korra

In this work, we formulate \textbf{T}ext \textbf{C}lassification as a \textbf{M}atching problem between the text and the labels, and propose a simple yet effective framework named TCM. Compared with previous text classification approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yi Song , Yuxian Gu , Minlie Huang

We implement a divide-and-concur iterative projection approach to context-free grammar inference. Unlike most state-of-the-art models of natural language processing, our method requires a relatively small number of discrete parameters,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Sean Deyo , Veit Elser

The exponential growth of textual data presents substantial challenges in management and analysis, notably due to high storage and processing costs. Text classification, a vital aspect of text mining, provides robust solutions by enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kamal Taha , Paul D. Yoo , Chan Yeun , Aya Taha

We propose a novel and simple method for semi-supervised text classification. The method stems from the hypothesis that a classifier with pretrained word embeddings always outperforms the same classifier with randomly initialized word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Hwiyeol Jo , Ceyda Cinarel

Text Categorization (TC), also known as Text Classification, is the task of automatically classifying a set of text documents into different categories from a predefined set. If a document belongs to exactly one of the categories, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Vishwanath Bijalwan , Pinki Kumari , Jordan Pascual , Vijay Bhaskar Semwal

The demand for text classification is growing significantly in web searching, data mining, web ranking, recommendation systems, and so many other fields of information and technology. This paper illustrates the text classification process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sadia Zaman Mishu , S M Rafiuddin

In this work we seek clusters of genomic words in human DNA by studying their inter-word lag distributions. Due to the particularly spiked nature of these histograms, a clustering procedure is proposed that first decomposes each…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-13 Ana Helena Tavares , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Paula Brito , Vera Afreixo

The problem of comparing two bodies of text and searching for words that differ in their usage between them arises often in digital humanities and computational social science. This is commonly approached by training word embeddings on each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hila Gonen , Ganesh Jawahar , Djamé Seddah , Yoav Goldberg