Paper detects review abuse using tensor decomposition.
problem Detecting review abuse by sellers and reviewers.
method Semi-supervised binary multi-target tensor decomposition.
result The model achieves higher precision and recall.
We report the first, to the best of our knowledge, hand-in-hand collaboration between human rights activists and machine learners, leveraging crowd-sourcing to study online abuse against women on Twitter. On a technical front, we carefully curate an unbiased yet low-variance dataset of labeled tweets, analyze it to acc…
LLMs can identify tax strategies, potentially revolutionizing tax enforcement.
problem Detecting and analyzing U.S. tax-minimization strategies.
method Evaluated advanced LLMs on interpreting, verifying, and generating tax strategies.
result Identified a novel tax strategy, showing LLMs' potential in tax enforcement.
Mitigates bias in text classification by weighting instances.
problem Unintended biases in text classification datasets based on demographic terms.
method Instance weighting to recover non-discrimination distribution.
result Effective mitigation of unintended biases without sacrificing generalization.
HMS-BERT detects cyberbullying in multiple languages and labels.
problem Multilingual and multi-label cyberbullying detection challenges.
method Hybrid multi-task self-training framework using BERT.
result Strong performance on multi-label and main classification tasks.
Project classifies Hinglish social content on platforms like Twitter, Reddit.
problem Classifying abusive and hate-inducing content in Hinglish on social media.
method Used deep learning with bi-directional sequence models and text augmentation techniques.
result Produced a state-of-the-art classifier that outperforms previous work.
Automated scoring engines are increasingly being used to score the free-form text responses that students give to questions. Such engines are not designed to appropriately deal with responses that a human reader would find alarming such as those that indicate an intention to self-harm or harm others, responses that all…
A framework for flagging content with limited data.
problem Content flagging with scarce target-language data.
method Nearest-neighbor architecture using Transformer representations.
result Significant performance improvements over prior work.
Despite the great success achieved in machine learning (ML), adversarial examples have caused concerns with regards to its trustworthiness: A small perturbation of an input results in an arbitrary failure of an otherwise seemingly well-trained ML model. While studies are being conducted to discover the intrinsic proper…
A new system learns entity representations to improve local entity disambiguation.
problem Local entity disambiguation in text.
method Entity-ELMo (E-ELMo) approach for contextual entity representation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models by 0.5% on AIDA test-b.
Entity relatedness has emerged as an important feature in a plethora of applications such as information retrieval, entity recommendation and entity linking. Given an entity, for instance a person or an organization, entity relatedness measures can be exploited for generating a list of highly-related entities. However,…
GENRE retrieves entities autoregressively, improving efficiency and accuracy.
problem Retrieving entities from queries efficiently and accurately.
method Autoregressive generation of entity names, reducing memory footprint and improving context encoding.
result Significantly improved performance on entity disambiguation, linking, and retrieval tasks.
Improves biomedical entity linking with latent type modeling.
problem Lack of fine-grained type information for entity disambiguation.
method Jointly models entity disambiguation and latent type learning without direct supervision.
result Significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art techniques.
Improves cross-lingual NER by projecting entities from one language to another.
problem Limited annotated corpora for named entity recognition in many languages.
method Uses machine translation twice: first for sentences, then for entities; matches based on ortho- and phonetic similarity; identifies matches using distributional statistics.
result Improves cross-lingual NER by an average of 4.1 points on 5 diverse languages.
Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in static settings and an unsupervised manner. However, entities in real-world are often involved in many different relationships, consequently enti…
Survey on ML advances for personalized prediction considering entity characteristics.
problem Sub-optimal performance in personalized prediction due to heterogeneity in data across entities.
method Organized current literature on entity-aware modeling based on characteristics availability and training data amount.
result Recent innovations in uncertainty quantification, fairness, and knowledge-guided machine learning can improve entity-aware modeling.
Neural production systems learn visual dynamics by applying rule templates to entities.
problem Modeling interactions among entities in structured visual environments.
method Inspired by production systems, the paper uses rule templates to bind placeholder variables to specific entities, scoring and applying the best fitting rules to update entity properties.
result The architecture achieves robust future-state prediction and extrapolation from simple to complex environments, outperforming GNNs.
Study benchmarks embedding-based entity alignment methods for KGs.
problem Align entities across different KGs using embeddings.
method Survey and categorize 23 embedding-based methods, propose new KG sampling algorithm, develop open-source library.
result Understood strengths and limitations of embedding-based methods.
Study uses machine learning to analyze state drug policies and reduce overdose deaths.
problem Epidemic opioid overdose rates and ineffective state-level policies.
method Hierarchical clustering of 138 binomial variables to generate policy bundles, then regression analysis.
result Balancing certain policies leads to reduced overdose deaths, but only after second year.
Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users. In this paper, we present NeuroNER, an easy-to-use named-entity recognition tool…
ME2Vec learns medical entity vectors from EHR data.
problem Learning structured information from EHR data.
method Graph-based medical entity embedding using diverse graph embedding techniques.
result ME2Vec outperforms baselines in disease diagnosis prediction.
OP3 models entities for better task generalization in reinforcement learning.
problem Generalizing to unseen physical tasks with combinatorial complexity.
method Object-centric perception, prediction, and planning (OP3) framework.
result OP3 outperforms oracle models and state-of-the-art video prediction models.
mGENRE improves multilingual entity linking with autoregressive sequence prediction.
problem Multilingual Entity Linking (MEL) task of resolving language-specific mentions to a multilingual Knowledge Base.
method Autoregressive sequence-to-sequence system that cross-encodes mention strings and entity names.
result Over 50% improvement in average accuracy in zero-shot settings.
The paper tackles entity induction and reference in visual storytelling.
problem Coherence in visual storytelling through proper entity introduction and reference.
method Building an entity skeleton, using an encoder-decoder framework, and proposing a glocal hierarchical attention model.
result The proposed models outperform the baseline in automatic evaluation metrics and human preference.
This research evaluates and introduces new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
problem Efficiently analyzing the vast number of Bitcoin blockchain entities.
method Examined and introduced four new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
result Introduced clustering ratio to measure heuristic effectiveness.
We propose Macau, a powerful and flexible Bayesian factorization method for heterogeneous data. Our model can factorize any set of entities and relations that can be represented by a relational model, including tensors and also multiple relations for each entity. Macau can also incorporate side information, specificall…
Enhances machine learning for dynamic, interconnected entities.
problem Lack of systematic feature engineering for dynamic, interconnected entities.
method Augments current graph machine learning with comprehensive feature engineering in space and time.
result Improves supervised learning on heterogeneous, attributed entities interacting over time.
One significant challenge to scaling entity resolution algorithms to massive datasets is understanding how performance changes after moving beyond the realm of small, manually labeled reference datasets. Unlike traditional machine learning tasks, when an entity resolution algorithm performs well on small hold-out datas…
Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network models for BioNER to free experts from manual feature engineering, the performan…
A system predicts future malicious behavior of network entities.
problem Prioritizing alert data and understanding attack recurrence.
method Machine learning-based network entity reputation database system.
result It is possible to precisely estimate future attack probabilities.
REFIL learns from imagined sub-group interactions to improve multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Learning efficiency in multi-agent reinforcement learning settings.
method Randomized Entity-wise Factorization (REFIL) approach.
result REFIL outperforms all strong baselines in challenging multi-task StarCraft settings.
Novel framework for efficient entity alignment labeling.
problem Efficient labeling of entity alignments in knowledge graphs.
method Active and passive learning strategies to select informative instances.
result Passive learning achieves comparable performance to active learning.
Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying records belonging to the same entity (e.g. individual, group) across one or multiple databases. Ironically, it has multiple names: deduplication and record linkage, among others. In this paper we survey metrics used to evaluate ER results in order to iteratively improve…
Improved NER in biomedical literature using weakly-supervised augmentation.
problem Challenging NER in scientific literature, especially for biomedical entities.
method Weakly-supervised data augmentation with a reference set.
result Iterative model retraining improves NER performance significantly.
Previous models for learning entity and relationship embeddings of knowledge graphs such as TransE, TransH, and TransR aim to explore new links based on learned representations. However, these models interpret relationships as simple translations on entity embeddings. In this paper, we try to learn more complex connect…
Efficiently resolves entities via scaled Ewens--Pitman model.
problem Entity resolution in large datasets.
method Microclustering Ewens--Pitman model with variational inference.
result Significant speed-up in entity resolution with competitive performance.
Anomaly detection plays an important role in modern data-driven security applications, such as detecting suspicious access to a socket from a process. In many cases, such events can be described as a collection of categorical values that are considered as entities of different types, which we call heterogeneous categor…
We show that any objective risk measurement algorithm mandated by central banks for regulated financial entities will result in more risk being taken on by those financial entities than would otherwise be the case. Furthermore, the risks taken on by the regulated financial entities are far more systemically concentrate…
Knowledge graphs have emerged as an important model for studying complex multi-relational data. This has given rise to the construction of numerous large scale but incomplete knowledge graphs encoding information extracted from various resources. An effective and scalable approach to jointly learn over multiple graphs …
Proposes a new method for predicting missing relations in knowledge graphs.
problem Predicting missing relations between entities in knowledge graphs.
method Relational message passing method considering only edge features without entity IDs.
result PathCon method outperforms state-of-the-art methods significantly.
Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) is an important task in Chinese natural language processing field. However, CNER is very challenging since Chinese entity names are highly context-dependent. In addition, Chinese texts lack delimiters to separate words, making it difficult to identify the boundary of entities. Be…
Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for different types of documents and domains, yet EL remains a challenging task where t…
HAKE embeds entities in polar coordinates to model semantic hierarchies in knowledge graphs.
problem Lack of modeling semantic hierarchies in knowledge graph embeddings.
method HAKE embeds entities in a polar coordinate system, where the radial coordinate represents hierarchy levels and the angular coordinate distinguishes entities at the same level.
result HAKE significantly outperforms existing methods on link prediction tasks in knowledge graphs.
MR-GNN predicts interactions between structured entities using multi-resolution and dual graph neural networks.
problem Predicting interactions between structured entities, especially considering features in substructures of different sizes and interactions between entities.
method MR-GNN uses a multi-resolution architecture and dual graph-state L-STMs to extract features from different neighborhoods and pairwise graphs, respectively.
result MR-GNN improves prediction accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The paper tackles uniform sampling from databases with duplicates.
problem Sampling uniformly from entities with duplicate records.
method Two-stage process: frequency estimation followed by rejection sampling.
result Efficient sampling algorithms under various data properties.
Greek POS Tagger and Entity Recognizer built using spaCy.
problem Developing a machine learning model for Greek language POS tagging and named entity recognition.
method Machine learning approach with spaCy platform, focusing on morphological features and token classification.
result The Greek spaCy platform improved performance in part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition.
Efficient autoregressive entity linking with correction for faster, more accurate results.
problem High computational cost and non-parallelizable decoding in autoregressive entity linking.
method Parallelizes autoregressive linking across all mentions, uses a shallow decoder, and adds a discriminative correction term.
result 70 times faster and more accurate than previous methods, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches.
New model for temporal KG completion using diachronic entity embeddings.
problem Temporal knowledge graph completion for incomplete KGs.
method Developed novel models by equipping static KG embedding models with a diachronic entity embedding function.
result Combining diachronic entity embeddings with SimplE results in superior temporal KG completion.