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.
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.
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.
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.
Enhances word embedding by transferring external knowledge.
problem Low-frequency words in semantic space.
method Latent Semantic Imputation (LSI) integrating graph theory and spectral embeddings.
result LSI generates reliable embedding vectors for low-frequency words.
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.
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…
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…
This paper improves topic modeling by embedding words and topics together.
problem Topic models struggle with short documents and approximate inference.
method Model each document as a mixture of word embeddings and each topic as a mixture of topic embeddings.
result The method optimizes topic embeddings to minimize semantic differences between words and topics.
NNLMs optimize poorly for word probabilities due to embedding space structure.
problem NNLMs assign suboptimal probabilities to some words.
method Analyzed the inductive bias of NNLMs and the structure of word embeddings.
result Words on the convex hull have bounded probability, affecting others.
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.
Proposes spherical text embedding for better directional similarity.
problem Directional similarity is more effective but unsupervised text embeddings are typically learned in Euclidean space.
method Develops a spherical generative model and an efficient optimization algorithm for unsupervised word and paragraph embeddings.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performances on various text embedding tasks.
We simplify word embeddings by removing sigmoid in SGNS, revealing connections to hyperbolic spaces.
problem Improving word embeddings quality and understanding their relationship with hyperbolic spaces.
method Analyzing squashed shifted PMI matrix and its relation to graph properties and hyperbolic geometry.
result Word embeddings can be connected to hyperbolic spaces through squashed shifted PMI matrix.
New post-processing methods improve word embedding performance.
problem Boosting the performance of word embeddings for similarity and analogy tasks.
method Optimizing a semi-Riemannian manifold with Centralised Kernel Alignment (CKA) to shrink the covariance matrix towards a scaled identity matrix.
result Improved performance on downstream tasks after smoothing the spectrum of word vectors.
There is rising interest in vector-space word embeddings and their use in NLP, especially given recent methods for their fast estimation at very large scale. Nearly all this work, however, assumes a single vector per word type ignoring polysemy and thus jeopardizing their usefulness for downstream tasks. We present an …
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.
Geometric approach learns bilingual mappings from monolingual embeddings.
problem Bilingual lexicon induction and cross-lingual word similarity.
method Decouples learning into rotations and a metric, modeled as optimization on Riemannian manifolds.
result Outperforms previous approaches on bilingual lexicon induction and cross-lingual word similarity tasks.
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.
Word embedding models offer continuous vector representations that can capture rich contextual semantics based on their word co-occurrence patterns. While these word vectors can provide very effective features used in many NLP tasks such as clustering similar words and inferring learning relationships, many challenges …
Researchers solve word2vec's Corpus Replication Task to understand relational word similarities.
problem Understanding how word2vec captures relational similarities in word embeddings.
method Propose a Corpus Replication Task to generate input text for word2vec that outputs specific target relations.
result Demonstrates that word2vec can capture relational similarities in word embeddings.
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.
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.
Word embedding maps words into a low-dimensional continuous embedding space by exploiting the local word collocation patterns in a small context window. On the other hand, topic modeling maps documents onto a low-dimensional topic space, by utilizing the global word collocation patterns in the same document. These two …
PCA whitening weighted by Zipfian word frequencies improves task performance.
problem Skewed word embedding spaces in neural models.
method PCA whitening weighted by empirical word frequencies following Zipf's law.
result Significantly improves task performance, surpassing baselines.
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.
Simple framework decouples word alignment and multilingual embedding mapping.
problem Learning multilingual embeddings without supervision.
method Two-stage approach: 1) unsupervised word alignment, 2) mapping embeddings to shared space.
result Robust performance across various multilingual tasks, including distant languages.
This paper restores interpretability to adversarial training in text by restricting perturbations to existing words.
problem Lack of interpretability in adversarial training methods for text.
method Restrict perturbations to existing words in the input embedding space.
result Maintains or improves task performance while maintaining interpretability.
Embedding words in a vector space has gained a lot of attention in recent years. While state-of-the-art methods provide efficient computation of word similarities via a low-dimensional matrix embedding, their motivation is often left unclear. In this paper, we argue that word embedding can be naturally viewed as a rank…
A novel method extracts topological features from word embeddings for text classification.
problem High dimensional and noisy text representations in natural language processing.
method Persistent homology for topological data analysis on word embeddings.
result Topological features outperform conventional text mining features on long textual documents.
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…
This work learns shared word embeddings for acoustic and phonetic sequences.
problem Mapping variable-length acoustic and phonetic sequences to fixed-dimensional vectors.
method Weak supervision and binary classification task to predict word similarity.
result Best model achieves an F1 score of 0.95 for binary classification.
Model learns multilingual word representations robust to noise.
problem Learning multilingual word representations in noisy environments.
method Fit a generative latent variable model to a multilingual dictionary.
result Competitive multilingual embeddings across various tasks.
Paper refines cross-lingual word embeddings using Manhattan norm.
problem Sensitivity of ℓ2 norm loss function to outliers in CLWEs. method Post-processing step using ℓ1 norm to improve CLWEs. result The ℓ1 refinement substantially outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. 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.
This paper proposes an efficient method to train word embeddings for large corpora without synchronization.
problem Training word embeddings for large text corpora is computationally expensive and requires synchronization.
method Partition the input space instead of the vocabulary size, using asynchronous training without parameter synchronization.
result Comparable and up to 45% performance improvement in NLP benchmarks with 1/10 the training time.
Develops techniques to align word embeddings from different sources.
problem Aligning word embeddings from diverse datasets or methods.
method Simple closed-form techniques for optimal rotation, translation, and scaling.
result Maximizes cosine similarity and minimizes root mean squared errors.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Geometric approach for unsupervised word embedding alignment.
problem Learning alignment between word embeddings of source and target languages.
method Formulates alignment as domain adaptation on the manifold of doubly stochastic matrices, employing Riemannian conjugate gradient algorithm.
result Empirically outperforms state-of-the-art methods on bilingual lexicon induction tasks.
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.