4 papers
Formation of Artificial Neural Assemblies by Biologically Plausible Inhibition Mechanisms
Lucas Hoff, Gustavo Soroka, Matheus Guimarães +2
As proposed by Hebb's theory, neural assemblies are groups of excitatory neurons that fire synchronously and exhibit high synaptic density, representing external stimuli and suppor…
Beyond surface form: A pipeline for semantic analysis in Alzheimer's Disease detection from spontaneous speech
Dylan Phelps, Rodrigo Wilkens, Edward Gow-Smith +6
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that adversely affects cognitive abilities. Language-related changes can be automatically identified through t…
SemEval-2025 Task 1: AdMIRe -- Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation
Thomas Pickard, Aline Villavicencio, Maggie Mi +3
Idiomatic expressions present a unique challenge in NLP, as their meanings are often not directly inferable from their constituent words. Despite recent advancements in Large Langu…
Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations
Wei He, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Marcos Garcia +3
Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of human languages, often used to express complex ideas in compressed or conventional ways (e.g. eager beaver as a keen and enthusiastic…