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 …

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 …

[کتاب][B] Exploiting linked data and knowledge graphs in large organisations

JZ Pan, G Vetere, JM Gomez-Perez, H Wu - 2017‏ - Springer
A few years after Google announced that their 'Knowledge Graph'would have allowed
searching for things, not strings, 1 knowledge graphs start entering information retrieval …

Analysis and evaluation of language models for word sense disambiguation

D Loureiro, K Rezaee, MT Pilehvar… - Computational …, 2021‏ - direct.mit.edu
Transformer-based language models have taken many fields in NLP by storm. BERT and its
derivatives dominate most of the existing evaluation benchmarks, including those for Word …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic feature engineering for answer selection and extraction

A Severyn, A Moschitti - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on …, 2013‏ - aclanthology.org
This paper proposes a framework for automatically engineering features for two important
tasks of question answering: answer sentence selection and answer extraction. We …

Predicting the semantic textual similarity with siamese CNN and LSTM

EL Pontes, S Huet, AC Linhares… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018‏ - arxiv.org
Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is the basis of many applications in Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Our system combines convolution and recurrent neural networks to …

Multi-lingual opinion mining on YouTube

A Severyn, A Moschitti, O Uryupina, B Plank… - Information Processing …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In order to successfully apply opinion mining (OM) to the large amounts of user-generated
content produced every day, we need robust models that can handle the noisy input well yet …

Biomedical vocabulary alignment at scale in the UMLS metathesaurus

V Nguyen, HY Yip, O Bodenreider - Proceedings of the Web Conference …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
With 214 source vocabularies, the construction and maintenance process of the UMLS
(Unified Medical Language System) Metathesaurus terminology integration system is costly …

[PDF][PDF] Supersense embeddings: A unified model for supersense interpretation, prediction, and utilization

L Flekova, I Gurevych - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting …, 2016‏ - aclanthology.org
Coarse-grained semantic categories such as supersenses have proven useful for a range of
downstream tasks such as question answering or machine translation. To date, no effort has …

Towards a seamless integration of word senses into downstream NLP applications

MT Pilehvar, J Camacho-Collados, R Navigli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017‏ - arxiv.org
Lexical ambiguity can impede NLP systems from accurate understanding of semantics.
Despite its potential benefits, the integration of sense-level information into NLP systems has …