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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

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The ability to reason, plan and solve highly abstract problems is a hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, propelled by deep neural networks, have revolutionized disciplines like computer vision and natural language ...

EPFL2024

Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework

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This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

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IntroductionThis study presents COVID-Twitter-BERT (CT-BERT), a transformer-based model that is pre-trained on a large corpus of COVID-19 related Twitter messages. CT-BERT is specifically designed to be used on COVID-19 content, particularly from social me ...

2023

Text as a Richer Source of Supervision in Semantic Segmentation Tasks

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach

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Association for Computing Machinery2023

Practice of Streaming Processing of Dynamic Graphs: Concepts, Models, and Systems

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Graphs processing has become an important part of various areas of computing, including machine learning, medical applications, social network analysis, computational sciences, and others. A growing amount of the associated graph processing workloads are d ...

2023

Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Andreas Oliver Spitz

Named entity linking (NEL) in news is a challenging endeavour due to the frequency of unseen and emerging entities, which necessitates the use of unsupervised or zero-shot methods. However, such methods tend to come with caveats, such as no integration of ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022

Transfer Learning from Pre-trained BERT for Pronoun Resolution

Qianqian Qiao, Xingce Bao

The paper describes the submission of the team "We used bert!" to the shared task Gendered Pronoun Resolution (Pair pronouns to their correct entities). Our final submission model based on the fine-tuned BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Tra ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2019

HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

HIPE-2022 datasets used for the HIPE 2022 shared task on named entity recognition and classification (NERC) and entity linking (EL) in multilingual historical documents. HIPE-2022 datasets are based on six primary datasets assembled and prepared for the sh ...

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Unsupervised Visual Entity Abstraction towards 2D and 3D Compositional Models

Beril Besbinar

Object-centric learning has gained significant attention over the last years as it can serve as a powerful tool to analyze complex scenes as a composition of simpler entities. Well-established tasks in computer vision, such as object detection or instance ...

EPFL2022

Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features

Defining and identifying duplicate records in a dataset is a challenging task which grows more complex when the modeled entities themselves are hard to delineate. In the geospatial domain, it may not be clear where a mountain, stream, or valley ends and be ...

2020

Modular robot networking: a novel schema and its performance assessment

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Anastasia Bolotnikova

Modular robots (MRs) consist of unique robots which interconnect and work as a collective to perform objectives. Coordinating these robots rely on robust communication, as modules moving independently can lead to damaging behaviour. We present a robust str ...

IEEE2022

Aligning Multilingual Word Embeddings for Cross-Modal Retrieval Task

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Alireza Mohammadshahi

In this paper, we propose a new approach to learn multimodal multilingual embeddings for matching images and their relevant captions in two languages. We combine two existing objective functions to make images and captions close in a joint embedding space ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2019

Simple Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction using Sentence Embeddings

Martin Jaggi, Claudiu-Cristian Musat

Keyphrase extraction is the task of automatically selecting a small set of phrases that best describe a given free text document. Keyphrases can be used for indexing, searching, aggregating and summarizing text documents, serving many automatic as well as ...

2018

Word Sense Consistency in Statistical and Neural Machine Translation

Xiao Pu

Different senses of source words must often be rendered by different words in the target language when performing machine translation (MT). Selecting the correct translation of polysemous words can be done based on the contexts of use. However, state-of-th ...

EPFL2018

Automated Taxonomy Induction and its Applications

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Machine-readable semantic knowledge in the form of taxonomies (i.e., a collection of is-a edges) has proved to be beneficial in an array of NLP tasks including inference, textual entailment, question answering and information extraction. Such widespread ut ...

EPFL2017

Detecting Trends in Job Advertisements

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We present an automatic method for trend detection in job ads. From a job-posting website, we collect job ads from 16 countries and in 8 languages and 6 job domains. We pre-process them by removing stop words, lemmatising and performing cross-domain filter ...

2017

Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation

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Machine Translation (MT) has made considerable progress in the past two decades, particularly after the introduction of neural network models (NMT). During this time, the research community has mostly focused on modeling and evaluating MT systems at the se ...

EPFL2021

Robustness via Cross-Domain Ensembles

Amir Roshan Zamir, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Oguzhan Fatih Kar

We present a method for making neural network predictions robust to shifts from the training data distribution. The proposed method is based on making predictions via a diverse set of cues (called 'middle domains') and ensembling them into one strong predi ...

IEEE2021