Questions tagged [semantic-similarity]
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Weighting Sentence Similarity by salience or frequency
It seems like the new standard in text search is sentence or document similarity, using things like BERT sentence embeddings. However, these don't really have a way to consider the salience of ...
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Document Similarity with User Preference
To measure the similarity between two documents, one can use, e.g. TF-IDF/Cosine Similarity. Supposing that after calculating the similarity scores of Doc A against ...
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How to choose similarity measurement between sentences and paragraphs
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1. How to find appropriate measurement method
There are several ways to measure sentence similarities, but I have no idea how to find appropriate method among them for my data (sentences).
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NLP: Checking that answers to a question are correct
Question answering is a common topic within NLP, but my problem is a little different: rather than answering a question, I have a question, an (open-ended) answer, and what I want to check is if that ...
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Document Content
I have a set of .pdf/.docx documents with content. I need to search for the most suitable document according to a particular sentence. For instance:
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Is there a way to train Doc2Vec on a corpus of docs and be able to take a novel doc and see how similar it is to the trained corpus?
I have a project idea, where I train a bunch of documents on Doc2Vec and then take a novel, input doc, and ideally be able to be told how similar it is to the docs supplied for training as a whole or ...
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Train a spaCy model for semantic similarity
I'm attempting to train a spaCy model for the purposes of computing semantic similarity but I'm not getting the results I would anticipate.
I have created two text files that contain many sentences ...
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How to handle words not in the dictionary (while finding similar words)?
I am doing a project on Semantic text analysis where my data has column Technical skills (so I have to train data to find similar words) which are words and not sentences. So I wish to find similar ...
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Comparing the similarity structure of 2 distance matrices (computed from sentence embedding)
I apologize if this question lacks clarity, my mathematical background on the topic is limited and was hoping to find some guidance. I would like to compare 2 distance matrices that contain pair-wise ...
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applicability of relative similarity computation
I've computed the cosine similarity between a & b (=x) and ...
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BERT Optimization for Production
I'm using BERT to transform text into 768 dim vector, It's multilingual :
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Cosine vs Manhattan for Text Similarity [closed]
I'm storing sentences in Elasticsearch as dense_vector field and used BERT for the embedding so each vector is 768 dim. ...
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Cluster words into groups of similar meaning (synonyms)
How can words be clustered into groups of similar meaning (synonyms)?
I started with pre-trained word embeddings (e.g., Google News), which is great, but not perfect - a limitation arises because the ...
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What's the best way to generate similar words?
Hi all I'm fairly up to date with all the NLP tasks out there (nlpprogress.com, paperswithcode.com) and great tools like (nltk, flair, huggingface etc). I want to take a single word, and predict a ...
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How to group clusters with semantic similarity?
I have a list of job titles. I found the semantic similarity between them by using word2vec in spacy.
Now I want job titles ...
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Return the most relevant columns for a given keyword
Suppose my database has column name and description for each column of each table. Need to design an interface where a user can enter a keyword and the interface will return the most relevance columns....
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Is it possible to perform Semantic Textual Similarity without using NLTK and Genism?
College restricted us to make projects in object oriented programming languages but without using any other libraries except standard ones. We can not use APIs also
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How to determine whether a semantic concept is present in a string
I need to find a way to detect if a large string contains a specific substring.
Imagine that I have a full contract page converted to string in my Python program. What I want to do is to say if a ...
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Similarity Threshold Standards
When using similarity measures (eg. Resnik Information Content, Cosine Similarity, etc.) for any type of data, are there any standard similarity thresholds that are used, or does it all depend on the ...
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Sentence to word similarity
Is there a way to know how much a sentence is related to a word/topic?
For instance the following dataframe and the topics/attributes Romantique, ...
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Evaluation metric for Information retrieval system
I am currently reading Semantic Product Search paper published by Amazon. They are using two evaluation subtasks matching and ranking. In matching, they tune the model hyperparameters to
maximize ...
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Appearance-based hashing for similarity detection for picking the 100 most distinct images out 500 images
I would like to perform appearance-based hashing for similarity detection. I have 500 photos for each of my categories but I only want to maintain the 100 of them that are most distinct. How should I ...
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If i use use BERT embeddings for if cosine(sent1,sent2) > 0.9, then is it fair to assume s1 and s2 are similar
According to BERT author Jacob Devlin: I'm not sure what these vectors are, since BERT does not generate meaningful sentence vectors. It seems that this is doing average pooling over the word tokens ...
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Should one-hot encoded categorical features needs to be scaled when used along with text feature while deriving semantic similarity?
My aim is to derive textual similarity using multiple features. Some of the features are textual for which I am using (Tfhub 2.0) Universal Sentence encoder. There are other categorical features which ...
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How to approach for predicting semantic similarity between two phrases
I need pointers on the latest research, tools, and techniques for predicting semantic similarity between two phrases.
Problem Statement: Given two propositions A ...
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Semantic similarity between two or more sentences
I need to determine how similar sentences (in meaning) are to one another.
In order to do it, I have been considering an algorithm (cosine similarity) to determine the similarity between sentences. I ...
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Semantic networks: word2vec?
I have some doubts on how to represent the relationships between words in texts.
Let’s suppose I have two sentences like these:
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Modelling for similarity between two descriptions
I have a dataset of companies and research projects that they were involved in. A subset of the dataset is shown below.
I am trying to find a way to model similarity between the company and the ...
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Semantic networks and conceptual graphs
I would like to use semantic networks to understand changes in texts.
For example when I add/remove some words within a text.
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Semantic network using word2vec
I have thousands of headlines and I would like to build a semantic network using word2vec, specifically google news files.
My sentences look like
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How to build recommendation model based on resume and job description?
How to build a model which will result in better recommendation of resumes based on the job description given?
I am familiar with bow or tfidf (n-grams) approach and then take a cosine similarity but ...
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NLP: Compare tags semantically with machine learning? (finding synonyms)
Let's say I have multiple tags that I need to compare semantically. For example:
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How to Calculate semantic similarity between video captions?
I intend to calculate the accuracy of a caption generated by comparing it to a number of reference sentences.
For example, the captions for one video are as follows:
These captions are for the same ...
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Semantic Search
There is a problem we are trying to solve where we want to do semantic search on our set of data,
i.e we have a domain specific data (example: sentences talking about automobiles)
Our data is just a ...
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How we compare two paragraphs of unlabelled dataset semantically (STS)?
Column representation: Unique_id | Text1 | Text2
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Text1 public show for reynolds suspension of his coaching licence. portrait sir joshua reynolds portrait of omai will get a public airing ...
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where to store embeddings for similarity search?
I've asked on stackoverflow already (here), but I figured that the approach of storing embeddings in an ordinary postgres-Database might be flawed from the very beginning. I will shortly etch out the ...
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Siamese networks vs Semantic similarity (may be gensim)
I am trying to understand the Siamese networks . In this vector is calculated for an object (say an image) and a distance metric is applied (say manhatten) on two vectors produced by the neural ...
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