Word embeddings are a powerful approach for unsupervised analysis of language. Recently, Rudolph et al. (2016) developed exponential family embeddings, which cast word embeddings in a probabilistic framework. Here, we develop dynamic embeddings, building on exponential family embeddings to capture how the meanings of w…
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DSA improves sentence embedding by dynamically attending to words.
problem Efficiently capturing the importance of words in sentences for embedding.
method DSA modifies dynamic routing from capsule networks for self-attention in sentences.
result DSA achieves state-of-the-art results in SNLI with fewer parameters.
D-ETM models document topics over time using embeddings and variational inference.
problem Capturing evolving topic patterns in sequential documents.
method Combines D-LDA and word embeddings, using random walk priors and variational inference.
result D-ETM outperforms D-LDA on document completion tasks, learning more diverse and coherent topics.
Introduces PELP for graph-enhanced word embeddings.
problem Combining graph side-information into static word embeddings.
method Probabilistic embeddings using Laplacian priors.
result Unified and flexible approach to various embedding methods.
Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time, as a byproduct of human language evolution. By studying word evolution, we can infer social trends and language constructs over different periods of human history. However, traditional techniques such as word representation learni…
Dynamic Word Embeddingsstat.ML
We present a probabilistic language model for time-stamped text data which tracks the semantic evolution of individual words over time. The model represents words and contexts by latent trajectories in an embedding space. At each moment in time, the embedding vectors are inferred from a probabilistic version of word2ve…
Efficiently trains dynamic word embedding models with structured variational inference.
problem Training continuous latent time series models with structured variational approximations.
method Analogous to the forward-backward algorithm, a BBVI algorithm that scales linearly in time.
result Efficiently samples from variational distribution and estimates ELBO gradients.
Finding Social Media Trolls: Dynamic Keyword Selection Methods for Rapidly-Evolving Online Debatescs.LG
Paper proposes using word embeddings to detect trolls in social media debates.
problem Preventing online harassment through rapid detection of offensive posts.
method Word embedding models for identifying fast-changing topics and negative content.
result GloVe model helps in discovering new keywords for trolling detection.
New algorithm speeds up model optimization for time series data.
problem Slow convergence in model optimization due to continuous symmetry.
method Gauge theory-inspired optimization algorithm.
result Orders of magnitude faster convergence and interpretable representations.
Simple model classifies traffic tweets from Twitter using word embeddings.
problem Sparsity and curse of dimensionality in bag-of-words representation for traffic tweets.
method Proposes a word embedding-based framework to classify traffic-related tweets from non-traffic ones.
result State-of-the-art test accuracy of 95.9% achieved with a simple model.
Semantic word embeddings represent the meaning of a word via a vector, and are created by diverse methods. Many use nonlinear operations on co-occurrence statistics, and have hand-tuned hyperparameters and reweighting methods. This paper proposes a new generative model, a dynamic version of the log-linear topic model o…
We describe a method for learning word embeddings with data-dependent dimensionality. Our Stochastic Dimensionality Skip-Gram (SD-SG) and Stochastic Dimensionality Continuous Bag-of-Words (SD-CBOW) are nonparametric analogs of Mikolov et al.'s (2013) well-known 'word2vec' models. Vector dimensionality is made dynamic b…
Most existing word embedding approaches do not distinguish the same words in different contexts, therefore ignoring their contextual meanings. As a result, the learned embeddings of these words are usually a mixture of multiple meanings. In this paper, we acknowledge multiple identities of the same word in different co…
Geometrically transforms word embeddings into a common space for better comparison.
problem Comparing embeddings from different sources is challenging.
method Applies orthogonal rotations and Mahalanobis scaling to transform embeddings into a shared latent space.
result The method improves word similarity and analogy tasks.
Paper proposes a new word embedding method optimizing word similarity.
problem Optimizing word similarity in embedding space.
method Two-step random walks between words via topics to learn an optimal embedding simplex.
result Our method outperforms existing approaches in various queries.
FRAGE learns word embeddings without frequency bias, improving performance across NLP tasks.
problem Word embeddings are biased towards word frequency, affecting performance for rare words.
method Adversarial training to learn Frequency-Agnostic word Embedding (FRAGE).
result FRAGE achieves higher performance than baselines in all four NLP tasks.
SWESA learns word embeddings with document labels for sentiment analysis.
problem Sentiment analysis using limited text data.
method SWESA uses supervised learning to optimize word embeddings and classifier performance.
result SWESA outperforms existing methods in sentiment analysis.
Paper explains word embedding dimensionality and proposes a new metric.
problem Understanding the optimal dimensionality of word embeddings.
method Proposed Pairwise Inner Product (PIP) loss to measure dissimilarity.
result Revealed a bias-variance trade-off in dimensionality selection.
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.
Paper uses JIVE to decompose word embeddings, improving sentiment analysis performance.
problem Improving sentiment analysis performance on word embeddings.
method Joint and individual variance explained (JIVE) method for decomposition.
result Mapping word embeddings into joint components improves sentiment analysis performance.
WME generates document embeddings from word embeddings, outperforming state-of-the-art techniques.
problem Lack of unsupervised document embeddings from pre-trained word embeddings.
method Word Mover's Embedding (WME) approach.
result WME consistently matches or outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on various text classification and similarity tasks.
Paper analyzes word embedding composition using tensor decomposition.
problem Given vector representations of two words, compute a vector for the entire phrase.
method Generative model with low rank Tucker decomposition of word embedding correlations.
result Word embeddings and a core tensor can be derived from the Tucker decomposition.
Proposes MorphMine for unsupervised morpheme segmentation to improve word embeddings.
problem Lack of semantic information in word-level analysis for infrequent and out-of-vocabulary words.
method MorphMine applies a parsimony criterion to hierarchically segment words into the fewest number of morphemes.
result MorphMine segments words into human-verified morphemes and improves word embedding quality.
Enhanced word embeddings boost multiclass text classification accuracy.
problem Improving multiclass text classification accuracy using pre-trained embeddings.
method Proposed word-class embeddings (WCEs) to enhance pre-trained word embeddings.
result WCEs significantly improve multiclass text classification accuracy.
Word embeddings in hyperbolic space outperform Euclidean ones.
problem Improving word embeddings for better performance.
method Learning word embeddings in hyperbolic space using skip-gram architecture and hyperbolic distance objective function.
result Hyperbolic word embeddings show potential, especially in low dimensions, but not clear superiority over Euclidean embeddings.
Unified framework for word embedding models using noise examples.
problem Improving word embedding models with negative sampling.
method Formulated a Word-Context Classification (WCC) framework that generalizes SkipGram word embedding models.
result The best noise distribution is the data distribution, improving both performance and training speed.
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.
Proposes priors for interpretable word embeddings.
problem Lack of interpretability and unsupervised nature of word embeddings.
method Use of informative priors to create interpretable probabilistic word embeddings.
result Sensible priors capture latent semantic concepts better than current methods.
Paper proposes a new method for sentence embeddings using weighted word vectors.
problem Improving sentence embeddings for natural language processing tasks.
method A simple sentence embedding method using weighted average of word vectors followed by soft projection.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on clinical semantic textual similarity task.
Paper debiases multiple word embedding biases simultaneously.
problem Reduction of multiple biases in word embeddings.
method Joint multiclass debiasing approach using Word Embeddings Association Test (WEAT).
result Demonstrates reduction or complete elimination of bias in word embeddings.
Additional Shared Decoder on Siamese Multi-view Encoders for Learning Acoustic Word Embeddingseess.AS
Improved acoustic word embeddings using shared decoder in multi-view encoders.
problem Learning discriminative acoustic word embeddings from text labels.
method Combining Siamese multi-view encoders with a shared decoder network to maximize the relationship between acoustic and text embeddings.
result 11.1% relative improvement in average precision on acoustic word discrimination task with WSJ dataset.
New method reduces word embedding storage space by 100x.
problem Large space required for storing word embeddings.
method Inspired by quantum computing, proposes word2ket and word2ketXS methods.
result Achieves a hundred-fold reduction in space required for word embeddings.
POLAR framework interprets word embeddings using polar opposites.
problem Lack of interpretability in pre-trained word embeddings.
method Adopt semantic differentials and polar opposites to transform embeddings.
result Interpretable word embeddings maintain performance comparable to original embeddings.
Survey of word embedding techniques for NLP.
problem Creating effective word representations for natural language processing.
method Describes recent strategies for fixed-length, dense word embeddings.
result Word embeddings encode syntactic and semantic information and improve NLP tasks.
Neutralizing Gender Bias in Word Embedding with Latent Disentanglement and Counterfactual Generationcs.CL
New method neutralizes gender bias in word embeddings without losing semantic information.
problem Gender biases in word embeddings trained on human-generated corpora.
method Latent Disentanglement and Counterfactual Generation with siamese auto-encoder and gradient reversal layer.
result Our method outperforms existing debiasing methods in preserving semantic information and neutralizing gender biases.
Paper proposes GN-GloVe to learn gender-neutral word embeddings.
problem Inherit strong gender stereotypes in embeddings trained on human-generated corpora.
method Proposes a novel training procedure to isolate gender information in word vectors.
result GN-GloVe successfully isolates gender information without sacrificing functionality.
Trains word embeddings from music and text data to link music contexts.
problem Varying vocabulary size and musical relevance in word embeddings.
method Combines general text and music-specific data to train word embeddings.
result Trained embeddings better associate music contexts with compositions.
Estimator Vectors learns OOV word embeddings using subword and context clues.
problem Lack of OOV word representations in neural network models.
method Jointly learns word, subword, and context clue representations.
result Strong estimates for OOV words via combined subword and context clue embeddings.
With a simple architecture and the ability to learn meaningful word embeddings efficiently from texts containing billions of words, word2vec remains one of the most popular neural language models used today. However, as only a single embedding is learned for every word in the vocabulary, the model fails to optimally re…
New method to understand bias in word embeddings.
problem Understanding and mitigating bias in word embeddings.
method Developed a technique to trace bias origins back to training documents.
result Accurate approximations of bias reduction can be made.
Corpus poisoning can manipulate word meanings in word embeddings, affecting natural language processing tasks.
problem Controlling word meanings via corpus modifications.
method Developed an explicit expression over corpus features to control word embeddings.
result Demonstrated the ability to manipulate word meanings in word embeddings, affecting various downstream tasks.
Paper uses neural word embeddings to analyze UN speeches for policy preferences and voting behavior.
problem Analyzing policy preferences and paradigm shifts in international politics.
method Applied neural word embeddings (Word2vec) to UN General Debate speeches.
result Found statistical relation between speech semantic content and voting behavior, contrary to hypothesis.
Utility of General and Specific Word Embeddings for Classifying Translational Stages of Researchcs.CL
Conventional text classification models make a bag-of-words assumption reducing text into word occurrence counts per document. Recent algorithms such as word2vec are capable of learning semantic meaning and similarity between words in an entirely unsupervised manner using a contextual window and doing so much faster th…
A novel method learns word embeddings and topics using Wasserstein distance.
problem Learning word embeddings and topics from text data.
method Distilled Wasserstein learning framework for joint word embedding and topic modeling.
result Superior performance on disease network construction, mortality prediction, and procedure recommendation.
We find words embed in Lie groups and propose new neural networks.
problem Understanding word embeddings and RNNs in natural language processing.
method Hyperparameter tuning and analysis of GRU and word embeddings.
result Words naturally embed in Lie groups and RNNs form nonlinear representations.
Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2Vec-like Modelscs.LG
Analyzes word2vec-like models revealing linear subspaces learned during training.
problem Understanding representation learning in word embeddings.
method Analytical solution of word2vec loss dynamics and final embeddings.
result Models learn orthogonal linear subspaces incrementally, representing interpretable concepts.
Most popular word embedding techniques involve implicit or explicit factorization of a word co-occurrence based matrix into low rank factors. In this paper, we aim to generalize this trend by using numerical methods to factor higher-order word co-occurrence based arrays, or \textit{tensors}. We present four word embedd…
ETM discovers interpretable topics in large vocabularies.
problem Existing topic models fail with large, heavy-tailed vocabularies.
method Generative model combining topic models and word embeddings with variational inference.
result ETM discovers interpretable topics even with large vocabularies.