arXiv Computation and Language

Inductive Learning of Concept Embeddings from Cross-Linguistic Colexification Patterns with Textual Attributes

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Does My Embedding Reflect That $A = B$? Evaluating Mathematical Equivalence in Embedding Models

arXiv:2606. 23959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Because mathematics is highly abstract, a single statement can take very different forms depending on what subfield it is framed in.

By Jiaying Ye, Samarth Rao, Leo Carlin, Kedar Chintalapati, Saharsh Bhargava, Rachit Jaiswal, Michael Zhou, Jared Darlington, Jarod Alper, Vasily Ilin, Henry Kvinge
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

CWoMP: Morpheme Representation Learning for Interlinear Glossing

CWoMP (Contrastive Word‑Morpheme Pretraining) is a new approach for generating interlinear glossed text that treats morphemes as atomic form‑meaning units with learned representations. It uses a contrastively trained encoder to align words in context with their constituent morphemes in a shared embedding space, and an autoregressive decoder that retrieves morpheme sequences from a mutable lexicon of these embeddings. The method yields interpretable predictions grounded in lexicon entries and allows users to improve results at inference time by expanding the lexicon without retraining, achieving superior performance and efficiency on diverse low‑resource languages, especially in extremely low‑resource settings.

By Morris Alper, Enora Rice, Bhargav Shandilya, Alexis Palmer, Lori Levin
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Do General NLP Embeddings Capture Ontological Reasoning?

The paper introduces AVA, a framework that tests whether general NLP embeddings can differentiate logic-sensitive relational semantics in ontologies and knowledge graphs. AVA uses 171,007 contrastive triplets from 163 ontologies, each containing an ontology statement, a paraphrase, and a hard negative with contradictory meaning. Evaluation of over 25 embedding models shows significant limitations, with the best model achieving only 0.739 triplet accuracy and 0.135 for hard negatives; fine‑tuning helps but does not transfer well to downstream Semantic Web tasks.

By Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, S\"oren Auer
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Grounded Token Initialization for New Vocabulary in LMs for Generative Recommendation

The paper examines how new vocabulary tokens are added to language models for generative recommendation tasks. It shows that the common practice of initializing these tokens as the mean of existing embeddings collapses them into a degenerate subspace, hindering fine‑tuning. The authors propose Grounded Token Initialization (GTI), which places new tokens at semantically meaningful positions in the pretrained embedding space using linguistic supervision, and demonstrate that GTI outperforms mean initialization and other adaptation methods across several benchmarks.

By Daiwei Chen, Zhoutong Fu, Chengming Jiang, Haichao Zhang, Ran Zhou, Tan Wang, Chunnan Yao, Guoyao Li, Rui Cai, Yihan Cao, Ruijie Jiang, Fedor Borisyuk, Jianqiang Shen, Jingwei Wu, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak