5 papers
Early Discovery of Disappearing Entities in Microblogs
Satoshi Akasaki, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda
We make decisions by reacting to changes in the real world, in particular, the emergence and disappearance of impermanent entities such as events, restaurants, and services. Becaus…
A System for Worldwide COVID-19 Information Aggregation
Akiko Aizawa, Frederic Bergeron, Junjie Chen +26
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has made the public pay close attention to related news, covering various domains, such as sanitation, treatment, and effects on education. Meanwhil…
Vocabulary Adaptation for Distant Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation
Shoetsu Sato, Jin Sakuma, Naoki Yoshinaga +2
Neural network methods exhibit strong performance only in a few resource-rich domains. Practitioners, therefore, employ domain adaptation from resource-rich domains that are, in mo…
Early Discovery of Emerging Entities in Microblogs
Satoshi Akasaki, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda
Keeping up to date on emerging entities that appear every day is indispensable for various applications, such as social-trend analysis and marketing research. Previous studies have…
Learning to Describe Phrases with Local and Global Contexts
Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Hiroaki Hayashi, Naoki Yoshinaga +4
When reading a text, it is common to become stuck on unfamiliar words and phrases, such as polysemous words with novel senses, rarely used idioms, internet slang, or emerging entit…