Traditional semantic similarity models often fail to encapsulate the external context in which texts are situated. However, textual datasets generated on mobile platforms can help us build a truer representation of semantic similarity by introducing multimodal data. This is especially important in sparse datasets, maki…
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FAT ALBERT: Finding Answers in Large Texts using Semantic Similarity Attention Layer based on BERTcs.CL
Model improves BERT for answering multiple-choice questions in large texts.
problem Improving machine comprehension of large text corpora for question answering.
method Developed a model using BERT with a semantic similarity attention layer to extract key sentences.
result Outperforms leading models in MovieQA challenge with 87.79% test accuracy.
Proposes BU-SPO method to improve text classification robustness.
problem Vulnerability of deep models in text classification.
method Bigram and unigram based adaptive Semantic Preservation Optimization (BU-SPO) method.
result Achieves highest attack success rates and semantic similarity by changing the smallest number of words.
Automatic measurement of semantic text similarity is an important task in natural language processing. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of different vector space models to perform this task. We address the real-world problem of modeling patent-to-patent similarity and compare TFIDF (and related extensions), t…
Improved text generation using transferable rewards from related tasks.
problem Non-differentiable task-specific scores limit the use of policy gradient methods in text generation.
method Transferable Reward Learner that uses model-based rewards for sentence-level and phrase-level similarity.
result Improved performance on semantic evaluation measures in image captioning tasks.
Text classification has become indispensable due to the rapid increase of text in digital form. Over the past three decades, efforts have been made to approach this task using various learning algorithms and statistical models based on bag-of-words (BOW) features. Despite its simple implementation, BOW features lack se…
Paper improves short text clustering by integrating semantic relationships into Optimal Transport.
problem Erroneous pseudo-labels caused by neglecting semantic consistency in existing OT methods.
method Designs an instance-level attention mechanism to capture semantic relationships and integrates them into the OT formulation.
result Generates reliable pseudo-labels that improve clustering accuracy.
New method evaluates text-to-image synthesis for realism, variety, and semantic accuracy.
problem Lack of metrics revealing semantic accuracy in text-to-image synthesis.
method Uses Inception network representations and t-SNE visualization for semantic evaluation.
result Classification accuracy of generated images to real images' visual concepts correlates with semantic accuracy.
Image captioning has demonstrated models that are capable of generating plausible text given input images or videos. Further, recent work in image generation has shown significant improvements in image quality when text is used as a prior. Our work ties these concepts together by creating an architecture that can enabl…
DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…
CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and CapsNets have shown significant insights in representation learning and are widely used in various text mining tasks such as large-scale multi-label text classification. However, most existing deep models for multi-label text classification consider either the non-consecutive and long-distance sem…
Method aligns multilingual news for better stock return prediction.
problem Losing nuances in multilingual news translations.
method Optimal transport for sentence alignment.
result Aligned sentences correlate better with stock returns.
Paper tackles Arabic question similarity, outperforming state-of-the-art.
problem Detecting semantically similar questions in Arabic is challenging.
method Utilizes contextualized word representations (ELMo embeddings) trained on MSA and dialectic sentences, combined with a pairwise similarity layer.
result Achieves 93% F1-score on Modern Standard Arabic benchmark and 82% on dialectical benchmark.
The abstract explains how word and relation representations capture semantic meaning.
problem Understanding how word and relation representations capture semantic meaning.
method Theoretical justification and extension of geometric relationships between word embeddings and knowledge graph representations.
result The geometric relationships between word embeddings correspond to semantic relations between words and entities in knowledge graphs.
Enhanced ontology learning from text improves question-answering systems.
problem Improving ontology learning from unstructured text for better question-answering systems.
method Heuristically modified FP-Tree with DFA for concept extraction and frequent pattern mining for ontology learning.
result Our approach significantly improves question-answering system performance, answering 80% of questions compared to 28.4% with Text2Onto.
A new text representation model combines CNN and VAE for better semantic extraction.
problem Difficult to effectively extract semantic features and distinguish polysemy in text data.
method Integrates CNN for feature extraction and VAE for consistent Gaussian distribution.
result The model outperforms traditional classification algorithms in text classification tasks.
W-RNN improves text classification by extracting serialized text semantics.
problem Semantic constraint in sparse representation classification methods.
method Weighted RNN using word vectors and recurrent neural networks.
result W-RNN outperforms other methods in precision, recall, F1, and loss values.
Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, extracting structured data from textual documents, and in machine learning relevance applications like semantic search, knowledge graph const…
LPL optimizes embeddings to align local neighborhoods, improving cross-lingual word alignment.
problem Aligning embeddings across different datasets and languages.
method Locality Preserving Loss (LPL) optimizes model to project embeddings while maintaining local neighborhoods and aligning them.
result LPL-based alignment leads to better and consistent accuracy, especially in small training set settings.
Unsupervised scheme ranks sentences in text documents based on semantic importance.
problem Ranking sentences in text documents without labeled data.
method Extracts essential words and phrases, constructs semantic phrase and sentence graphs, applies PageRank, combines scores, and optimizes for topic diversity.
result SSR outperforms individual judges and compares favorably with combined rankings on benchmarks.
Proposes RDASS for better Korean text summarization evaluation.
problem ROUGE scores fail to capture semantic meaning in Korean text summarization.
method Introduces RDASS metrics and a method to improve their correlation with human judgment.
result RDASS metrics correlate better with human judgment than ROUGE scores.
Early detection and precise characterization of emerging topics in text streams can be highly useful in applications such as timely and targeted public health interventions and discovering evolving regional business trends. Many methods have been proposed for detecting emerging events in text streams using topic modeli…
Improved text summarization using neural semantic encoders with hierarchical structure.
problem Capturing long-term dependencies in text summarization.
method Proposed a novel hierarchical Neural Semantic Encoder (NSE) model augmented with lemma and PoS tags.
result Significantly outperformed state-of-the-art models in ROUGE metric.
New hashing method improves document retrieval precision.
problem Efficiently retrieving similar documents from large text databases.
method Pairwise supervised hashing with Bernoulli VAE and unbiased gradient estimator.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods.
Improves document summarization by combining word embeddings and n-grams.
problem Exact word matching fails to measure semantic similarity between sentences.
method Uses deep embedding features and tf-idf features to improve sentence similarity measure; builds an improved sentence similarity graph; employs a submodular objective function; develops a Transformer-based compression model.
result Outperforms tf-idf based approach and achieves state-of-the-art performance on DUC04 dataset.
Online voting is an emerging feature in social networks, in which users can express their attitudes toward various issues and show their unique interest. Online voting imposes new challenges on recommendation, because the propagation of votings heavily depends on the structure of social networks as well as the content …
ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.
problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.
HawkesLLM models text generation with temporal influence, improving semantic alignment under limited memory.
problem Path-dependent uncertainty in agentic text-simulation systems.
method HawkesLLM framework separates temporal influence modeling from text generation, using a multivariate Hawkes process and a language model.
result HawkesLLM improves late-stage semantic alignment under a compact prompt-memory budget.
An increasing number of people are using online social networking services (SNSs), and a significant amount of information related to experiences in consumption is shared in this new media form. Text mining is an emerging technique for mining useful information from the web. We aim at discovering in particular tweets s…
While the celebrated Word2Vec technique yields semantically rich representations for individual words, there has been relatively less success in extending to generate unsupervised sentences or documents embeddings. Recent work has demonstrated that a distance measure between documents called \emph{Word Mover's Distance…
SHMM models human mobility from GPS and text data, overcoming text sparsity.
problem Modeling human mobility from semantic trace data, especially addressing text sparsity.
method SHMM is a multi-modal spherical hidden Markov model that jointly models location, time, and text embeddings on a unit sphere using vMF distribution.
result SHMM outperforms state-of-the-art models in next location prediction and has lower training cost.
One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context. Resolving the WSD problem boosts the accuracy of many NLP focused algorithms such as text classification…
Adversarial tweets can fool stock prediction models, causing financial loss.
problem Vulnerability of stock prediction models to adversarial attacks on social media.
method Solving combinatorial optimization problems with semantic and budget constraints to generate adversarial tweets.
result Adversarial tweets can fool stock prediction models and cause significant financial loss.
As a fundamental problem of natural language processing, it is important to measure the distance between different documents. Among the existing methods, the Word Mover's Distance (WMD) has shown remarkable success in document semantic matching for its clear physical insight as a parameter-free model. However, WMD is e…
Traditional topic models do not account for semantic regularities in language. Recent distributional representations of words exhibit semantic consistency over directional metrics such as cosine similarity. However, neither categorical nor Gaussian observational distributions used in existing topic models are appropria…
Many methods have been proposed for detecting emerging events in text streams using topic modeling. However, these methods have shortcomings that make them unsuitable for rapid detection of locally emerging events on massive text streams. We describe Spatially Compact Semantic Scan (SCSS) that has been developed specif…
A method for disentangling text representations without supervision.
problem Challenges in learning disentangled representations of natural language.
method Information-theoretic guidance to induce independent style and content embeddings.
result High quality disentangled representations in terms of content and style preservation.
This paper presents a Semantic Attribute Modulation (SAM) for language modeling and style variation. The semantic attribute modulation includes various document attributes, such as titles, authors, and document categories. We consider two types of attributes, (title attributes and category attributes), and a flexible a…
Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding algorithm: leveraging availability of pairs of semantically "similar" data points and "n…
Deep learning models improved sentence similarity in medical records.
problem Improving sentence similarity in electronic medical records.
method Developed models using traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches, pre-trained sentence embeddings on biomedical corpora.
result Ensembled model achieved a Person correlation coefficient of 0.8528.
OTSeg uses multi-prompt Sinkhorn attention to improve zero-shot semantic segmentation.
problem Leveraging pre-trained CLIP knowledge to align text embeddings with pixel embeddings.
method OTSeg employs Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn (MPS) and Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn Attention (MPSA) to enhance semantic feature matching.
result OTSeg achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation tasks.
POTA improves short text clustering by generating reliable pseudo-labels.
problem Limited discriminative representations in short texts.
method POTA uses instance-level attention and optimal transport for semantic consistency and cluster structure.
result POTA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in short text clustering.
The paper explores how semantic independence can be captured in text embeddings using partial orthogonality.
problem Capturing semantic independence in text embeddings.
method Developed a theory and methods based on partial orthogonality to demonstrate semantic independence.
result Partial orthogonality captures semantic independence in text embeddings.
Continuous word representation (aka word embedding) is a basic building block in many neural network-based models used in natural language processing tasks. Although it is widely accepted that words with similar semantics should be close to each other in the embedding space, we find that word embeddings learned in seve…
Successful multimodal search and retrieval requires the automatic understanding of semantic cross-modal relations, which, however, is still an open research problem. Previous work has suggested the metrics cross-modal mutual information and semantic correlation to model and predict cross-modal semantic relations of ima…
The topic modeling discovers the latent topic probability of the given text documents. To generate the more meaningful topic that better represents the given document, we proposed a new feature extraction technique which can be used in the data preprocessing stage. The method consists of three steps. First, it generate…
Word meaning changes over time, depending on linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Associating a word's correct meaning in its historical context is a central challenge in diachronic research, and is relevant to a range of NLP tasks, including information retrieval and semantic search in historical texts. Bayesian m…
The paper predicts financial markets using news text and semantic network analysis.
problem Predicting financial markets with news data.
method Semantic network analysis of news text to assess economic keywords' importance.
result The index captures financial market phases and predicts returns and volatilities.