QUACKIE creates a new benchmark for NLP interpretability.
problem Evaluating NLP interpretability methods is challenging due to biased ground truths.
method Formulated a custom classification task from question-answering datasets, generating unbiased ground truths.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of current interpretability methods on the new benchmark.
This paper improves NLP interpretability by using sentence segments instead of words.
problem Limitations of word-based sampling in explaining complex BERT models.
method Using sentence segments as elementary building blocks for NLP interpretability.
result Improved fidelity of the explainer on a benchmark classification task.
Researchers develop a method to interpret GNNs by identifying unnecessary edges in NLP models.
problem Understanding which parts of graphs contribute to NLP model predictions.
method A post-hoc method using differentiable edge masking to identify and drop unnecessary edges.
result Large proportions of edges can be dropped without affecting model performance, providing insights into model predictions.
COCKATIEL explains neural net models on NLP tasks by identifying meaningful concepts.
problem Transformer models are complex and hard to interpret.
method COCKATIEL uses NMF and sensitivity analysis to identify and rank concepts used by the model.
result COCKATIEL provides accurate and meaningful explanations without affecting model performance.
This paper predicts legal proceedings status using NLP and machine learning.
problem Classify Brazilian legal proceedings into archived, active, and suspended categories.
method Combined NLP techniques with machine learning to classify legal proceedings sequences.
result Achieved maximum accuracy of 93% and top average F1 Scores of 89% (macro) and 93% (weighted).
Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to various NLP tasks. However, it is not obvious whether they model different linguistic patterns such as negation, intensification, and clause compositionality to help the decision-making process. In this paper, we apply visualization techniques to observe h…
Following great success in the image processing field, the idea of adversarial training has been applied to tasks in the natural language processing (NLP) field. One promising approach directly applies adversarial training developed in the image processing field to the input word embedding space instead of the discrete…
Embeddings are ubiquitous in machine learning, appearing in recommender systems, NLP, and many other applications. Researchers and developers often need to explore the properties of a specific embedding, and one way to analyze embeddings is to visualize them. We present the Embedding Projector, a tool for interactive v…
Concerns about interpretability, computational resources, and principled inductive priors have motivated efforts to engineer sparse neural models for NLP tasks. If sparsity is important for NLP, might well-trained neural models naturally become roughly sparse? Using the Taxi-Euclidean norm to measure sparsity, we find …
Word embeddings have demonstrated strong performance on NLP tasks. However, lack of interpretability and the unsupervised nature of word embeddings have limited their use within computational social science and digital humanities. We propose the use of informative priors to create interpretable and domain-informed dime…
Algorithm improves SLR efficiency in financial narratives.
problem Fragmented understanding of financial narratives.
method NLP, clustering, interpretability tools.
result Unified narrative modeling approaches needed.
Objective: We investigate whether deep learning techniques for natural language processing (NLP) can be used efficiently for patient phenotyping. Patient phenotyping is a classification task for determining whether a patient has a medical condition, and is a crucial part of secondary analysis of healthcare data. We ass…
We create interpretable word embeddings through sparse coding.
problem Difficult to interpret word embeddings in natural language processing.
method Transform pretrained dense word embeddings into sparse embeddings through sparse coding.
result Sparse embeddings are more interpretable and achieve good performance.
The EMNLP 2018 workshop BlackboxNLP was dedicated to resources and techniques specifically developed for analyzing and understanding the inner-workings and representations acquired by neural models of language. Approaches included: systematic manipulation of input to neural networks and investigating the impact on thei…
This study uses NLP to detect financial risks from documents.
problem Detecting and predicting financial risks in documents.
method NLP model design, text preprocessing, feature extraction, machine learning.
result NLP model effectively identifies and predicts financial risks.
Generative model evaluates text emotion intensity, outperforming classification.
problem Limitations of discrete emotion classification in applied domains.
method Fine-tuning generative language models to output continuous emotion intensity scores.
result Generative model outperforms classification baselines and reveals generalization capabilities.
Post-processing corrects bias in ML systems without retraining.
problem Correcting bias in ML systems that are already in use.
method Proposes general post-processing algorithms for individual fairness based on graph Laplacian regularization.
result Empirically, post-processing algorithms correct individual biases in large-scale NLP models while preserving accuracy.
FinAI-BERT classifies AI disclosures in financial reports with high accuracy.
problem Systematic detection of AI-related disclosures in financial reports.
method Fine-tuned transformer-based model on a curated dataset.
result Achieved near-perfect classification performance (99.37% accuracy).
Neural models for NLP typically use large numbers of parameters to reach state-of-the-art performance, which can lead to excessive memory usage and increased runtime. We present a structure learning method for learning sparse, parameter-efficient NLP models. Our method applies group lasso to rational RNNs (Peng et al.,…
New measure corrects news bias in NLP stock return forecasting.
problem Improving stock return and volatility forecasting accuracy.
method Hype-Adjusted Probability Measure, sentiment score equation.
result Significantly improved forecast accuracy for U.S. semiconductor tickers.
This paper analyzes crypto white papers under MiCAR, highlighting NLP's role.
problem Regulatory changes in crypto white papers under MiCAR.
method Survey of existing NLP applications, analysis of MiCAR changes.
result NLP can assist in regulatory compliance and white paper analysis.
TextCNN, the convolutional neural network for text, is a useful deep learning algorithm for sentence classification tasks such as sentiment analysis and question classification. However, neural networks have long been known as black boxes because interpreting them is a challenging task. Researchers have developed sever…
Instantly interprets black-box models using additive models.
problem Efficiency and representation power of SHAP explanations.
method Variational perspective linking GAM models and SHAP explanations; InstaSHAP method.
result Automatic computation of Shapley values in a single forward pass.
SusGen-GPT improves financial NLP and ESG report generation.
problem Lack of advanced NLP tools for finance and ESG domains.
method Developed SusGen-30K dataset and SusGen-GPT models.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in financial NLP tasks.
MDA optimizer performs similarly to SGD+M in CV and Adam in NLP.
problem Performance degradation due to choosing the wrong optimizer.
method Modernized Dual Averaging (MDA) optimizer, inspired by dual averaging.
result MDA performs as well as SGD+M in CV and as Adam in NLP.
We introduce HUBERT which combines the structured-representational power of Tensor-Product Representations (TPRs) and BERT, a pre-trained bidirectional Transformer language model. We show that there is shared structure between different NLP datasets that HUBERT, but not BERT, is able to learn and leverage. We validate …
Survey on using large models to train smaller datasets in NLP.
problem Lack of large datasets and computing resources for NLP tasks.
method Analysis of recent transfer learning approaches in NLP.
result Increased demand for transfer learning in NLP due to large models.
New pruning method retains model expressiveness for NLP tasks.
problem Pruning large pretrained transformer models for real-world deployment.
method Mixture Gaussian Prior Pruning (MGPP) algorithm.
result MGPP outperforms existing pruning methods in high sparsity settings.
This paper addresses anisotropy in Transformer models, providing geometric insights and empirical support.
problem Anisotropy phenomenon in Transformer models, challenging their geometric interpretation.
method Derive geometric arguments and use concept-based mechanistic interpretability during training.
result Activation-derived directions capture large gradient energy and a larger share of gradient anisotropy than normal controls.
BERT outperforms traditional machine learning in text classification tasks.
problem Comparing BERT to traditional machine learning methods for text classification.
method Empirical testing of BERT against TF-IDF-based machine learning models in various scenarios.
result BERT demonstrates superior performance and independence from text features.
This paper reviews feature selection in KGs for improved ML model performance.
problem Improving feature selection in KGs for better machine learning model efficacy.
method Comprehensive review of feature selection methodologies in KGs.
result Advancement in scalability, accuracy, and interpretability of feature selection techniques.
Hungarian text processing improved with efficient, accurate NLP pipelines.
problem Improving text processing for Hungarian language.
method Implemented in spaCy framework, focusing on efficiency and accuracy.
result Near state-of-the-art performance in all text preprocessing steps.
HuSpaCy offers an industrial-grade Hungarian NLP toolkit.
problem Lack of suitable open-source Hungarian NLP pipelines.
method Built on spaCy, HuSpaCy includes lemmatization, morphosyntactic analysis, entity recognition, and word embeddings.
result HuSpaCy achieves high accuracy with resource-efficient prediction.
The Hype Index measures media attention to equities using NLP.
problem Quantifying media attention to equities for volatility analysis.
method Constructs News Count-Based and Capitalization Adjusted Hype Indices using NLP.
result The Hype Index family provides valuable tools for stock volatility analysis.
While state-of-the-art NLP explainability (XAI) methods focus on explaining per-sample decisions in supervised end or probing tasks, this is insufficient to explain and quantify model knowledge transfer during (un-)supervised training. Thus, for TX-Ray, we modify the established computer vision explainability principle…
The paper improves cryptocurrency price forecasting using deep learning and NLP on financial, blockchain, and social media data.
problem Improving cryptocurrency price forecasting accuracy and profitability.
method Integrates financial, blockchain, and social media data; applies BART MNLI model for sentiment analysis; uses deep learning NLP models; compares with traditional methods; uses local extrema as predictive targets.
result Significantly improves forecasting accuracy and profitability of cryptocurrency price predictions.
Is it true that patients with similar conditions get similar diagnoses? In this paper we show NLP methods and a unique corpus of documents to validate this claim. We (1) introduce a method for representation of medical visits based on free-text descriptions recorded by doctors, (2) introduce a new method for clustering…
This paper presents several strategies that can improve neural network-based predictive methods for MOOC student course trajectory modeling, applying multiple ideas previously applied to tackle NLP (Natural Language Processing) tasks. In particular, this paper investigates LSTM networks enhanced with two forms of regul…
This paper presents a deep-learning based traffic classification method for identifying multiple streaming video sources at the same time within an encrypted tunnel. The work defines a novel feature inspired by Natural Language Processing (NLP) that allows existing NLP techniques to help the traffic classification. The…
This paper explores how NLP enhances insurance data analysis.
problem Traditional insurance data limitations and need for alternative data.
method Application of NLP techniques to transform and analyze unstructured text data.
result NLP techniques improve insurance data analysis and risk assessment.
Study improves cryptocurrency price prediction using unlabeled text data.
problem Predicting cryptocurrency returns from unlabelled text data.
method Introduced weak learning approach to finetune BERT on unlabeled text data.
result Finetuning pretrained NLP models with weak labels enhances forecast accuracy.
Study uses ML to predict currency and bond returns from news sentiment.
problem Predicting financial returns from news sentiment.
method Pretrained FinBERT model on finance-specific language, XGBoost classifier, SHAP for interpretability.
result XGBoost strategy outperforms benchmarks with Sharpe ratios > 5.
Framework quantifies financial NLP robustness under regime shifts.
problem Semantic and causal drift in financial news narratives.
method Four metrics: FCAS, PCS, TSV, NLICS.
result Transformer models are more affected by semantic drift.
Detects systematic anomalies in consumer complaints using NLP.
problem Detecting small, frequent anomalies in consumer complaints.
method NLP conversion of narratives, followed by anomaly detection algorithm.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of NLP for detecting systematic anomalies.
BigBird improves transformer performance on NLP tasks with longer sequences.
problem Quadratic dependency on sequence length in transformer models.
method Sparse attention mechanism reducing quadratic dependency to linear.
result Significant improvement in performance on NLP tasks like QA and summarization.
BERTopic enhances stock market prediction by analyzing sentiment in topic models.
problem Improving stock price prediction accuracy using sentiment analysis.
method Employed BERTopic for sentiment analysis of stock market comments integrated with deep learning models.
result Enhanced model performance through topic sentiment integration.
BERTino is a lightweight Italian DistilBERT model for NLP tasks.
problem High computational and memory demands of large language models.
method Developed a DistilBERT model tailored for Italian language.
result F1 scores comparable to BERTBASE with significant speed improvements.
Paper develops a method for valid inference using language model predictions from verbal autopsy narratives.
problem Valid inference from verbal autopsy narratives for public health decision-making.
method Develops multiPPI++ method for valid inference using NLP techniques for COD prediction.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of multiPPI++ in handling transportability issues and recovering ground truth estimates.