Evolution of semantic similarity—a survey

D Chandrasekaran, V Mago - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Estimating the semantic similarity between text data is one of the challenging and open
research problems in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The versatility of …

A survey on aspect-based sentiment classification

G Brauwers, F Frasincar - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With the constantly growing number of reviews and other sentiment-bearing texts on the
Web, the demand for automatic sentiment analysis algorithms continues to expand. Aspect …

WiC: the word-in-context dataset for evaluating context-sensitive meaning representations

MT Pilehvar, J Camacho-Collados - arxiv preprint arxiv:1808.09121, 2018 - arxiv.org
By design, word embeddings are unable to model the dynamic nature of words' semantics,
ie, the property of words to correspond to potentially different meanings. To address this …

Vector-space models of semantic representation from a cognitive perspective: A discussion of common misconceptions

F Günther, L Rinaldi, M Marelli - … on Psychological Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent
semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the …

Distributional semantics and linguistic theory

G Boleda - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Distributional semantics provides multidimensional, graded, empirically induced word
representations that successfully capture many aspects of meaning in natural languages, as …

Does BERT make any sense? Interpretable word sense disambiguation with contextualized embeddings

G Wiedemann, S Remus, A Chawla… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Contextualized word embeddings (CWE) such as provided by ELMo (Peters et al., 2018),
Flair NLP (Akbik et al., 2018), or BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) are a major recent innovation in …

Text mining approaches for dealing with the rapidly expanding literature on COVID-19

LL Wang, K Lo - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
More than 50 000 papers have been published about COVID-19 since the beginning of
2020 and several hundred new papers continue to be published every day. This incredible …

Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

G Savcisens, T Eliassi-Rad, LK Hansen… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Here we represent human lives in a way that shares structural similarity to language, and we
exploit this similarity to adapt natural language processing techniques to examine the …

Identifying fake news on social networks based on natural language processing: trends and challenges

NR de Oliveira, PS Pisa, MA Lopez, DSV de Medeiros… - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
The epidemic spread of fake news is a side effect of the expansion of social networks to
circulate news, in contrast to traditional mass media such as newspapers, magazines, radio …

A survey of textual emotion recognition and its challenges

J Deng, F Ren - IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Textual language is the most natural carrier of human emotion. In natural language
processing, textual emotion recognition (TER) has become an important topic due to its …