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A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations
cs.CL
Recognizing analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and associations appear to be four distinct tasks, requiring distinct NLP algorithms. In the past, the four tasks have been treated independently, using a wide variety of algorithms. These four semantic classes, however, are a tiny sample of the full range of semantic phenomen...
computer science
9,101
A Linear Classifier Based on Entity Recognition Tools and a Statistical Approach to Method Extraction in the Protein-Protein Interaction Literature
cs.CL
We participated, in the Article Classification and the Interaction Method subtasks (ACT and IMT, respectively) of the Protein-Protein Interaction task of the BioCreative III Challenge. For the ACT, we pursued an extensive testing of available Named Entity Recognition and dictionary tools, and used the most promising on...
computer science
9,102
Bayesian Query-Focused Summarization
cs.CL
We present BayeSum (for ``Bayesian summarization''), a model for sentence extraction in query-focused summarization. BayeSum leverages the common case in which multiple documents are relevant to a single query. Using these documents as reinforcement for query terms, BayeSum is not afflicted by the paucity of informatio...
computer science
9,103
Learning Attitudes and Attributes from Multi-Aspect Reviews
cs.CL
The majority of online reviews consist of plain-text feedback together with a single numeric score. However, there are multiple dimensions to products and opinions, and understanding the `aspects' that contribute to users' ratings may help us to better understand their individual preferences. For example, a user's impr...
computer science
9,104
A machine-compiled macroevolutionary history of Phanerozoic life
cs.DB
Many aspects of macroevolutionary theory and our understanding of biotic responses to global environmental change derive from literature-based compilations of palaeontological data. Existing manually assembled databases are, however, incomplete and difficult to assess and enhance. Here, we develop and validate the qual...
computer science
9,105
Scalable Topical Phrase Mining from Text Corpora
cs.CL
While most topic modeling algorithms model text corpora with unigrams, human interpretation often relies on inherent grouping of terms into phrases. As such, we consider the problem of discovering topical phrases of mixed lengths. Existing work either performs post processing to the inference results of unigram-based t...
computer science
9,106
Performance Investigation of Feature Selection Methods
cs.IR
Sentiment analysis or opinion mining has become an open research domain after proliferation of Internet and Web 2.0 social media. People express their attitudes and opinions on social media including blogs, discussion forums, tweets, etc. and, sentiment analysis concerns about detecting and extracting sentiment or opin...
computer science
9,107
Recognizing Speech in a Novel Accent: The Motor Theory of Speech Perception Reframed
cs.CL
The motor theory of speech perception holds that we perceive the speech of another in terms of a motor representation of that speech. However, when we have learned to recognize a foreign accent, it seems plausible that recognition of a word rarely involves reconstruction of the speech gestures of the speaker rather tha...
computer science
9,108
Feature Learning with Gaussian Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Robust Speech Recognition
cs.CL
In this paper, we first present a new variant of Gaussian restricted Boltzmann machine (GRBM) called multivariate Gaussian restricted Boltzmann machine (MGRBM), with its definition and learning algorithm. Then we propose using a learned GRBM or MGRBM to extract better features for robust speech recognition. Our experim...
computer science
9,109
Probabilistic Cascading for Large Scale Hierarchical Classification
cs.LG
Hierarchies are frequently used for the organization of objects. Given a hierarchy of classes, two main approaches are used, to automatically classify new instances: flat classification and cascade classification. Flat classification ignores the hierarchy, while cascade classification greedily traverses the hierarchy f...
computer science
9,110
Solving Verbal Comprehension Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding
cs.CL
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test is a set of standardized questions designed to evaluate human intelligence. Verbal comprehension questions appear very frequently in IQ tests, which measure human's verbal ability including the understanding of the words with multiple senses, the synonyms and antonyms, and the analogies ...
computer science
9,111
Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Categorizing Posts in Web Discussion Forums
cs.CL
Web discussion forums are used by millions of people worldwide to share information belonging to a variety of domains such as automotive vehicles, pets, sports, etc. They typically contain posts that fall into different categories such as problem, solution, feedback, spam, etc. Automatic identification of these categor...
computer science
9,112
Sentence Level Recurrent Topic Model: Letting Topics Speak for Themselves
cs.LG
We propose Sentence Level Recurrent Topic Model (SLRTM), a new topic model that assumes the generation of each word within a sentence to depend on both the topic of the sentence and the whole history of its preceding words in the sentence. Different from conventional topic models that largely ignore the sequential orde...
computer science
9,113
A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning
cs.CL
As robots become more ubiquitous and capable, it becomes ever more important to enable untrained users to easily interact with them. Recently, this has led to study of the language grounding problem, where the goal is to extract representations of the meanings of natural language tied to perception and actuation in the...
computer science
9,114
Cross Language Text Classification via Subspace Co-Regularized Multi-View Learning
cs.CL
In many multilingual text classification problems, the documents in different languages often share the same set of categories. To reduce the labeling cost of training a classification model for each individual language, it is important to transfer the label knowledge gained from one language to another language by con...
computer science
9,115
Fast and accurate sentiment classification using an enhanced Naive Bayes model
cs.CL
We have explored different methods of improving the accuracy of a Naive Bayes classifier for sentiment analysis. We observed that a combination of methods like negation handling, word n-grams and feature selection by mutual information results in a significant improvement in accuracy. This implies that a highly accurat...
computer science
9,116
A Subband-Based SVM Front-End for Robust ASR
cs.CL
This work proposes a novel support vector machine (SVM) based robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) front-end that operates on an ensemble of the subband components of high-dimensional acoustic waveforms. The key issues of selecting the appropriate SVM kernels for classification in frequency subbands and the combin...
computer science
9,117
Complex Question Answering: Unsupervised Learning Approaches and Experiments
cs.CL
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topic-oriented, informative multi-document summarization where the goal is to produce a single text as a compressed version of a set of documents with a minimum loss of relevant information. In this ...
computer science
9,118
Content Modeling Using Latent Permutations
cs.IR
We present a novel Bayesian topic model for learning discourse-level document structure. Our model leverages insights from discourse theory to constrain latent topic assignments in a way that reflects the underlying organization of document topics. We propose a global model in which both topic selection and ordering ar...
computer science
9,119
Which Clustering Do You Want? Inducing Your Ideal Clustering with Minimal Feedback
cs.IR
While traditional research on text clustering has largely focused on grouping documents by topic, it is conceivable that a user may want to cluster documents along other dimensions, such as the authors mood, gender, age, or sentiment. Without knowing the users intention, a clustering algorithm will only group documents...
computer science
9,120
Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers in Sentiment Mining
cs.LG
In recent years, the use of machine learning classifiers is of great value in solving a variety of problems in text classification. Sentiment mining is a kind of text classification in which, messages are classified according to sentiment orientation such as positive or negative. This paper extends the idea of evaluati...
computer science
9,121
Improving Collaborative Filtering based Recommenders using Topic Modelling
cs.IR
Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based on rating overlap in this case,without considering explicit properties of users o...
computer science
9,122
Inducing Language Networks from Continuous Space Word Representations
cs.LG
Recent advancements in unsupervised feature learning have developed powerful latent representations of words. However, it is still not clear what makes one representation better than another and how we can learn the ideal representation. Understanding the structure of latent spaces attained is key to any future advance...
computer science
9,123
Scalable and Robust Construction of Topical Hierarchies
cs.LG
Automated generation of high-quality topical hierarchies for a text collection is a dream problem in knowledge engineering with many valuable applications. In this paper a scalable and robust algorithm is proposed for constructing a hierarchy of topics from a text collection. We divide and conquer the problem using a t...
computer science
9,124
Evaluating topic coherence measures
cs.LG
Topic models extract representative word sets - called topics - from word counts in documents without requiring any semantic annotations. Topics are not guaranteed to be well interpretable, therefore, coherence measures have been proposed to distinguish between good and bad topics. Studies of topic coherence so far are...
computer science
9,125
Using Local Alignments for Relation Recognition
cs.CL
This paper discusses the problem of marrying structural similarity with semantic relatedness for Information Extraction from text. Aiming at accurate recognition of relations, we introduce local alignment kernels and explore various possibilities of using them for this task. We give a definition of a local alignment (L...
computer science
9,126
Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive
cs.DB
Populating a database with unstructured information is a long-standing problem in industry and research that encompasses problems of extraction, cleaning, and integration. Recent names used for this problem include dealing with dark data and knowledge base construction (KBC). In this work, we describe DeepDive, a syste...
computer science
9,127
Ordering-sensitive and Semantic-aware Topic Modeling
cs.LG
Topic modeling of textual corpora is an important and challenging problem. In most previous work, the "bag-of-words" assumption is usually made which ignores the ordering of words. This assumption simplifies the computation, but it unrealistically loses the ordering information and the semantic of words in the context....
computer science
9,128
On the Effects of Low-Quality Training Data on Information Extraction from Clinical Reports
cs.LG
In the last five years there has been a flurry of work on information extraction from clinical documents, i.e., on algorithms capable of extracting, from the informal and unstructured texts that are generated during everyday clinical practice, mentions of concepts relevant to such practice. Most of this literature is a...
computer science
9,129
Author Name Disambiguation by Using Deep Neural Network
cs.DL
Author name ambiguity decreases the quality and reliability of information retrieved from digital libraries. Existing methods have tried to solve this problem by predefining a feature set based on expert's knowledge for a specific dataset. In this paper, we propose a new approach which uses deep neural network to learn...
computer science
9,130
LSHTC: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Text Classification
cs.IR
LSHTC is a series of challenges which aims to assess the performance of classification systems in large-scale classification in a a large number of classes (up to hundreds of thousands). This paper describes the dataset that have been released along the LSHTC series. The paper details the construction of the datsets an...
computer science
9,131
Information Extraction with Character-level Neural Networks and Free Noisy Supervision
cs.CL
We present an architecture for information extraction from text that augments an existing parser with a character-level neural network. The network is trained using a measure of consistency of extracted data with existing databases as a form of noisy supervision. Our architecture combines the ability of constraint-base...
computer science
9,132
Incorporating Language Level Information into Acoustic Models
cs.CL
This paper proposed a class of novel Deep Recurrent Neural Networks which can incorporate language-level information into acoustic models. For simplicity, we named these networks Recurrent Deep Language Networks (RDLNs). Multiple variants of RDLNs were considered, including two kinds of context information, two methods...
computer science
9,133
Empirical Evaluation of Four Tensor Decomposition Algorithms
cs.LG
Higher-order tensor decompositions are analogous to the familiar Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), but they transcend the limitations of matrices (second-order tensors). SVD is a powerful tool that has achieved impressive results in information retrieval, collaborative filtering, computational linguistics, computatio...
computer science
9,134
From Frequency to Meaning: Vector Space Models of Semantics
cs.CL
Computers understand very little of the meaning of human language. This profoundly limits our ability to give instructions to computers, the ability of computers to explain their actions to us, and the ability of computers to analyse and process text. Vector space models (VSMs) of semantics are beginning to address the...
computer science
9,135
Local Space-Time Smoothing for Version Controlled Documents
cs.GR
Unlike static documents, version controlled documents are continuously edited by one or more authors. Such collaborative revision process makes traditional modeling and visualization techniques inappropriate. In this paper we propose a new representation based on local space-time smoothing that captures important revis...
computer science
9,136
WebSets: Extracting Sets of Entities from the Web Using Unsupervised Information Extraction
cs.LG
We describe a open-domain information extraction method for extracting concept-instance pairs from an HTML corpus. Most earlier approaches to this problem rely on combining clusters of distributionally similar terms and concept-instance pairs obtained with Hearst patterns. In contrast, our method relies on a novel appr...
computer science
9,137
Connecting Language and Knowledge Bases with Embedding Models for Relation Extraction
cs.CL
This paper proposes a novel approach for relation extraction from free text which is trained to jointly use information from the text and from existing knowledge. Our model is based on two scoring functions that operate by learning low-dimensional embeddings of words and of entities and relationships from a knowledge b...
computer science
9,138
Visualizing Bags of Vectors
cs.IR
The motivation of this work is two-fold - a) to compare between two different modes of visualizing data that exists in a bag of vectors format b) to propose a theoretical model that supports a new mode of visualizing data. Visualizing high dimensional data can be achieved using Minimum Volume Embedding, but the data ha...
computer science
9,139
Text Classification For Authorship Attribution Analysis
cs.DL
Authorship attribution mainly deals with undecided authorship of literary texts. Authorship attribution is useful in resolving issues like uncertain authorship, recognize authorship of unknown texts, spot plagiarism so on. Statistical methods can be used to set apart the approach of an author numerically. The basic met...
computer science
9,140
Category-Theoretic Quantitative Compositional Distributional Models of Natural Language Semantics
cs.CL
This thesis is about the problem of compositionality in distributional semantics. Distributional semantics presupposes that the meanings of words are a function of their occurrences in textual contexts. It models words as distributions over these contexts and represents them as vectors in high dimensional spaces. The p...
computer science
9,141
Subjectivity Classification using Machine Learning Techniques for Mining Feature-Opinion Pairs from Web Opinion Sources
cs.IR
Due to flourish of the Web 2.0, web opinion sources are rapidly emerging containing precious information useful for both customers and manufactures. Recently, feature based opinion mining techniques are gaining momentum in which customer reviews are processed automatically for mining product features and user opinions ...
computer science
9,142
On the Ground Validation of Online Diagnosis with Twitter and Medical Records
cs.SI
Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual users are actually sick. Taking a different approach, we develop a novel system fo...
computer science
9,143
How Many Topics? Stability Analysis for Topic Models
cs.LG
Topic modeling refers to the task of discovering the underlying thematic structure in a text corpus, where the output is commonly presented as a report of the top terms appearing in each topic. Despite the diversity of topic modeling algorithms that have been proposed, a common challenge in successfully applying these ...
computer science
9,144
Feature Engineering for Knowledge Base Construction
cs.DB
Knowledge base construction (KBC) is the process of populating a knowledge base, i.e., a relational database together with inference rules, with information extracted from documents and structured sources. KBC blurs the distinction between two traditional database problems, information extraction and information integr...
computer science
9,145
Interpretable Low-Rank Document Representations with Label-Dependent Sparsity Patterns
cs.CL
In context of document classification, where in a corpus of documents their label tags are readily known, an opportunity lies in utilizing label information to learn document representation spaces with better discriminative properties. To this end, in this paper application of a Variational Bayesian Supervised Nonnegat...
computer science
9,146
"Look Ma, No Hands!" A Parameter-Free Topic Model
cs.LG
It has always been a burden to the users of statistical topic models to predetermine the right number of topics, which is a key parameter of most topic models. Conventionally, automatic selection of this parameter is done through either statistical model selection (e.g., cross-validation, AIC, or BIC) or Bayesian nonpa...
computer science
9,147
Statistically Significant Detection of Linguistic Change
cs.CL
We propose a new computational approach for tracking and detecting statistically significant linguistic shifts in the meaning and usage of words. Such linguistic shifts are especially prevalent on the Internet, where the rapid exchange of ideas can quickly change a word's meaning. Our meta-analysis approach constructs ...
computer science
9,148
Integer-Programming Ensemble of Temporal-Relations Classifiers
cs.CL
The extraction of temporal events from text and understanding temporal relations between the events are major challenges in natural language processing. We present an ensemble method, which reconciles the output of multiple classifiers of temporal expressions, subject to consistency constraints across the output. Compu...
computer science
9,149
Weakly Supervised Multi-Embeddings Learning of Acoustic Models
cs.SD
We trained a Siamese network with multi-task same/different information on a speech dataset, and found that it was possible to share a network for both tasks without a loss in performance. The first task was to discriminate between two same or different words, and the second was to discriminate between two same or diff...
computer science
9,150
Extraction of Salient Sentences from Labelled Documents
cs.CL
We present a hierarchical convolutional document model with an architecture designed to support introspection of the document structure. Using this model, we show how to use visualisation techniques from the computer vision literature to identify and extract topic-relevant sentences. We also introduce a new scalable ...
computer science
9,151
Measuring academic influence: Not all citations are equal
cs.DL
The importance of a research article is routinely measured by counting how many times it has been cited. However, treating all citations with equal weight ignores the wide variety of functions that citations perform. We want to automatically identify the subset of references in a bibliography that have a central academ...
computer science
9,152
Classifying Tweet Level Judgements of Rumours in Social Media
cs.SI
Social media is a rich source of rumours and corresponding community reactions. Rumours reflect different characteristics, some shared and some individual. We formulate the problem of classifying tweet level judgements of rumours as a supervised learning task. Both supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation are cons...
computer science
9,153
Learning Contextualized Semantics from Co-occurring Terms via a Siamese Architecture
cs.IR
One of the biggest challenges in Multimedia information retrieval and understanding is to bridge the semantic gap by properly modeling concept semantics in context. The presence of out of vocabulary (OOV) concepts exacerbates this difficulty. To address the semantic gap issues, we formulate a problem on learning contex...
computer science
9,154
LCSTS: A Large Scale Chinese Short Text Summarization Dataset
cs.CL
Automatic text summarization is widely regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of large text summarization data set. Due to the great challenge of constructing the large scale summaries for full text, in this paper, we introduce a large corpus of Chinese short text summarization dataset ...
computer science
9,155
Answer Sequence Learning with Neural Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering
cs.CL
In this paper, the answer selection problem in community question answering (CQA) is regarded as an answer sequence labeling task, and a novel approach is proposed based on the recurrent architecture for this problem. Our approach applies convolution neural networks (CNNs) to learning the joint representation of questi...
computer science
9,156
Exploratory topic modeling with distributional semantics
cs.IR
As we continue to collect and store textual data in a multitude of domains, we are regularly confronted with material whose largely unknown thematic structure we want to uncover. With unsupervised, exploratory analysis, no prior knowledge about the content is required and highly open-ended tasks can be supported. In th...
computer science
9,157
The Polylingual Labeled Topic Model
cs.CL
In this paper, we present the Polylingual Labeled Topic Model, a model which combines the characteristics of the existing Polylingual Topic Model and Labeled LDA. The model accounts for multiple languages with separate topic distributions for each language while restricting the permitted topics of a document to a set o...
computer science
9,158
Incremental Active Opinion Learning Over a Stream of Opinionated Documents
cs.IR
Applications that learn from opinionated documents, like tweets or product reviews, face two challenges. First, the opinionated documents constitute an evolving stream, where both the author's attitude and the vocabulary itself may change. Second, labels of documents are scarce and labels of words are unreliable, becau...
computer science
9,159
Sampled Weighted Min-Hashing for Large-Scale Topic Mining
cs.LG
We present Sampled Weighted Min-Hashing (SWMH), a randomized approach to automatically mine topics from large-scale corpora. SWMH generates multiple random partitions of the corpus vocabulary based on term co-occurrence and agglomerates highly overlapping inter-partition cells to produce the mined topics. While other a...
computer science
9,160
Data-selective Transfer Learning for Multi-Domain Speech Recognition
cs.LG
Negative transfer in training of acoustic models for automatic speech recognition has been reported in several contexts such as domain change or speaker characteristics. This paper proposes a novel technique to overcome negative transfer by efficient selection of speech data for acoustic model training. Here data is ch...
computer science
9,161
Improved Twitter Sentiment Prediction through Cluster-then-Predict Model
cs.IR
Over the past decade humans have experienced exponential growth in the use of online resources, in particular social media and microblogging websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and also mobile applications such as WhatsApp, Line, etc. Many companies have identified these resources as a rich mine of marketing kn...
computer science
9,162
Multi-GPU Distributed Parallel Bayesian Differential Topic Modelling
cs.CL
There is an explosion of data, documents, and other content, and people require tools to analyze and interpret these, tools to turn the content into information and knowledge. Topic modeling have been developed to solve these problems. Topic models such as LDA [Blei et. al. 2003] allow salient patterns in data to be ex...
computer science
9,163
Freshman or Fresher? Quantifying the Geographic Variation of Internet Language
cs.CL
We present a new computational technique to detect and analyze statistically significant geographic variation in language. Our meta-analysis approach captures statistical properties of word usage across geographical regions and uses statistical methods to identify significant changes specific to regions. While previous...
computer science
9,164
Fast Latent Variable Models for Inference and Visualization on Mobile Devices
cs.LG
In this project we outline Vedalia, a high performance distributed network for performing inference on latent variable models in the context of Amazon review visualization. We introduce a new model, RLDA, which extends Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) [Blei et al., 2003] for the review space by incorporating auxiliary...
computer science
9,165
Distributed Deep Learning for Question Answering
cs.LG
This paper is an empirical study of the distributed deep learning for question answering subtasks: answer selection and question classification. Comparison studies of SGD, MSGD, ADADELTA, ADAGRAD, ADAM/ADAMAX, RMSPROP, DOWNPOUR and EASGD/EAMSGD algorithms have been presented. Experimental results show that the distribu...
computer science
9,166
Mining Local Gazetteers of Literary Chinese with CRF and Pattern based Methods for Biographical Information in Chinese History
cs.CL
Person names and location names are essential building blocks for identifying events and social networks in historical documents that were written in literary Chinese. We take the lead to explore the research on algorithmically recognizing named entities in literary Chinese for historical studies with language-model ba...
computer science
9,167
Hierarchical Latent Semantic Mapping for Automated Topic Generation
cs.LG
Much of information sits in an unprecedented amount of text data. Managing allocation of these large scale text data is an important problem for many areas. Topic modeling performs well in this problem. The traditional generative models (PLSA,LDA) are the state-of-the-art approaches in topic modeling and most recent re...
computer science
9,168
Hierarchical classification of e-commerce related social media
cs.SI
In this paper, we attempt to classify tweets into root categories of the Amazon browse node hierarchy using a set of tweets with browse node ID labels, a much larger set of tweets without labels, and a set of Amazon reviews. Examining twitter data presents unique challenges in that the samples are short (under 140 char...
computer science
9,169
Aspect-based Opinion Summarization with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CL
This paper considers Aspect-based Opinion Summarization (AOS) of reviews on particular products. To enable real applications, an AOS system needs to address two core subtasks, aspect extraction and sentiment classification. Most existing approaches to aspect extraction, which use linguistic analysis or topic modeling, ...
computer science
9,170
Jointly Modeling Topics and Intents with Global Order Structure
cs.CL
Modeling document structure is of great importance for discourse analysis and related applications. The goal of this research is to capture the document intent structure by modeling documents as a mixture of topic words and rhetorical words. While the topics are relatively unchanged through one document, the rhetorical...
computer science
9,171
From Word Embeddings to Item Recommendation
cs.LG
Social network platforms can use the data produced by their users to serve them better. One of the services these platforms provide is recommendation service. Recommendation systems can predict the future preferences of users using their past preferences. In the recommendation systems literature there are various techn...
computer science
9,172
Learning Hidden Unit Contributions for Unsupervised Acoustic Model Adaptation
cs.CL
This work presents a broad study on the adaptation of neural network acoustic models by means of learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC) -- a method that linearly re-combines hidden units in a speaker- or environment-dependent manner using small amounts of unsupervised adaptation data. We also extend LHUC to a speake...
computer science
9,173
A Convolutional Attention Network for Extreme Summarization of Source Code
cs.LG
Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation invariant and would be valuable for directing the model's attention, but previous attentional architectures are not constructed to le...
computer science
9,174
Blind score normalization method for PLDA based speaker recognition
cs.CL
Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) has become state-of-the-art method for modeling $i$-vector space in speaker recognition task. However the performance degradation is observed if enrollment data size differs from one speaker to another. This paper presents a solution to such problem by introducing new P...
computer science
9,175
PCA Method for Automated Detection of Mispronounced Words
cs.SD
This paper presents a method for detecting mispronunciations with the aim of improving Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tools used by foreign language learners. The algorithm is based on Principle Component Analysis (PCA). It is hierarchical with each successive step refining the estimate to classify the test...
computer science
9,176
Personalized Speech recognition on mobile devices
cs.CL
We describe a large vocabulary speech recognition system that is accurate, has low latency, and yet has a small enough memory and computational footprint to run faster than real-time on a Nexus 5 Android smartphone. We employ a quantized Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) acoustic model trained with connectionist temporal c...
computer science
9,177
Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
cs.CL
In aspect-based sentiment analysis, extracting aspect terms along with the opinions being expressed from user-generated content is one of the most important subtasks. Previous studies have shown that exploiting connections between aspect and opinion terms is promising for this task. In this paper, we propose a novel jo...
computer science
9,178
Yelp Dataset Challenge: Review Rating Prediction
cs.CL
Review websites, such as TripAdvisor and Yelp, allow users to post online reviews for various businesses, products and services, and have been recently shown to have a significant influence on consumer shopping behaviour. An online review typically consists of free-form text and a star rating out of 5. The problem of p...
computer science
9,179
On a Topic Model for Sentences
cs.CL
Probabilistic topic models are generative models that describe the content of documents by discovering the latent topics underlying them. However, the structure of the textual input, and for instance the grouping of words in coherent text spans such as sentences, contains much information which is generally lost with t...
computer science
9,180
Source-LDA: Enhancing probabilistic topic models using prior knowledge sources
cs.CL
A popular approach to topic modeling involves extracting co-occurring n-grams of a corpus into semantic themes. The set of n-grams in a theme represents an underlying topic, but most topic modeling approaches are not able to label these sets of words with a single n-gram. Such labels are useful for topic identification...
computer science
9,181
Retrieving and Ranking Similar Questions from Question-Answer Archives Using Topic Modelling and Topic Distribution Regression
cs.IR
Presented herein is a novel model for similar question ranking within collaborative question answer platforms. The presented approach integrates a regression stage to relate topics derived from questions to those derived from question-answer pairs. This helps to avoid problems caused by the differences in vocabulary us...
computer science
9,182
TwiSE at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Twitter Sentiment Classification
cs.CL
This paper describes the participation of the team "TwiSE" in the SemEval 2016 challenge. Specifically, we participated in Task 4, namely "Sentiment Analysis in Twitter" for which we implemented sentiment classification systems for subtasks A, B, C and D. Our approach consists of two steps. In the first step, we genera...
computer science
9,183
Automatic Pronunciation Generation by Utilizing a Semi-supervised Deep Neural Networks
cs.CL
Phonemic or phonetic sub-word units are the most commonly used atomic elements to represent speech signals in modern ASRs. However they are not the optimal choice due to several reasons such as: large amount of effort required to handcraft a pronunciation dictionary, pronunciation variations, human mistakes and under-r...
computer science
9,184
A Novel Framework to Expedite Systematic Reviews by Automatically Building Information Extraction Training Corpora
cs.IR
A systematic review identifies and collates various clinical studies and compares data elements and results in order to provide an evidence based answer for a particular clinical question. The process is manual and involves lot of time. A tool to automate this process is lacking. The aim of this work is to develop a fr...
computer science
9,185
A Curriculum Learning Method for Improved Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
cs.CL
The performance of automatic speech recognition systems under noisy environments still leaves room for improvement. Speech enhancement or feature enhancement techniques for increasing noise robustness of these systems usually add components to the recognition system that need careful optimization. In this work, we prop...
computer science
9,186
Permutation Invariant Training of Deep Models for Speaker-Independent Multi-talker Speech Separation
cs.CL
We propose a novel deep learning model, which supports permutation invariant training (PIT), for speaker independent multi-talker speech separation, commonly known as the cocktail-party problem. Different from most of the prior arts that treat speech separation as a multi-class regression problem and the deep clusterin...
computer science
9,187
Temporal Topic Analysis with Endogenous and Exogenous Processes
cs.CL
We consider the problem of modeling temporal textual data taking endogenous and exogenous processes into account. Such text documents arise in real world applications, including job advertisements and economic news articles, which are influenced by the fluctuations of the general economy. We propose a hierarchical Baye...
computer science
9,188
Stock trend prediction using news sentiment analysis
cs.CL
Efficient Market Hypothesis is the popular theory about stock prediction. With its failure much research has been carried in the area of prediction of stocks. This project is about taking non quantifiable data such as financial news articles about a company and predicting its future stock trend with news sentiment clas...
computer science
9,189
World Knowledge as Indirect Supervision for Document Clustering
cs.LG
One of the key obstacles in making learning protocols realistic in applications is the need to supervise them, a costly process that often requires hiring domain experts. We consider the framework to use the world knowledge as indirect supervision. World knowledge is general-purpose knowledge, which is not designed for...
computer science
9,190
Syntactically Informed Text Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.LG
We present a self-contained system for constructing natural language models for use in text compression. Our system improves upon previous neural network based models by utilizing recent advances in syntactic parsing -- Google's SyntaxNet -- to augment character-level recurrent neural networks. RNNs have proven excepti...
computer science
9,191
Rapid Classification of Crisis-Related Data on Social Networks using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CL
The role of social media, in particular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, as a conduit for actionable and tactical information during disasters is increasingly acknowledged. However, time-critical analysis of big crisis data on social media streams brings challenges to machine learning techniques, especially the...
computer science
9,192
Hash2Vec, Feature Hashing for Word Embeddings
cs.CL
In this paper we propose the application of feature hashing to create word embeddings for natural language processing. Feature hashing has been used successfully to create document vectors in related tasks like document classification. In this work we show that feature hashing can be applied to obtain word embeddings i...
computer science
9,193
An improved uncertainty decoding scheme with weighted samples for DNN-HMM hybrid systems
cs.LG
In this paper, we advance a recently-proposed uncertainty decoding scheme for DNN-HMM (deep neural network - hidden Markov model) hybrid systems. This numerical sampling concept averages DNN outputs produced by a finite set of feature samples (drawn from a probabilistic distortion model) to approximate the posterior li...
computer science
9,194
Multiplex lexical networks reveal patterns in early word acquisition in children
cs.CL
Network models of language have provided a way of linking cognitive processes to the structure and connectivity of language. However, one shortcoming of current approaches is focusing on only one type of linguistic relationship at a time, missing the complex multi-relational nature of language. In this work, we overcom...
computer science
9,195
Twitter Opinion Topic Model: Extracting Product Opinions from Tweets by Leveraging Hashtags and Sentiment Lexicon
cs.CL
Aspect-based opinion mining is widely applied to review data to aggregate or summarize opinions of a product, and the current state-of-the-art is achieved with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)-based model. Although social media data like tweets are laden with opinions, their "dirty" nature (as natural language) has di...
computer science
9,196
Topic Modeling over Short Texts by Incorporating Word Embeddings
cs.CL
Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such as probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) and latent Dirichlet allocatio...
computer science
9,197
Topic Browsing for Research Papers with Hierarchical Latent Tree Analysis
cs.CL
Academic researchers often need to face with a large collection of research papers in the literature. This problem may be even worse for postgraduate students who are new to a field and may not know where to start. To address this problem, we have developed an online catalog of research papers where the papers have bee...
computer science
9,198
FPGA-Based Low-Power Speech Recognition with Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CL
In this paper, a neural network based real-time speech recognition (SR) system is developed using an FPGA for very low-power operation. The implemented system employs two recurrent neural networks (RNNs); one is a speech-to-character RNN for acoustic modeling (AM) and the other is for character-level language modeling ...
computer science
9,199
Applications of Online Deep Learning for Crisis Response Using Social Media Information
cs.CL
During natural or man-made disasters, humanitarian response organizations look for useful information to support their decision-making processes. Social media platforms such as Twitter have been considered as a vital source of useful information for disaster response and management. Despite advances in natural language...
computer science