2 papers
cs.CL2022
What company do words keep? Revisiting the distributional semantics of J.R. Firth & Zellig Harris
Mikael Brunila, Jack LaViolette
The power of word embeddings is attributed to the linguistic theory that similar words will appear in similar contexts. This idea is specifically invoked by noting that "you shall…
cs.CL2021
WMDecompose: A Framework for Leveraging the Interpretable Properties of Word Mover's Distance in Sociocultural Analysis
Mikael Brunila, Jack LaViolette
Despite the increasing popularity of NLP in the humanities and social sciences, advances in model performance and complexity have been accompanied by concerns about interpretabilit…