Language Models

Talk: Twitter-Demographer

In this talk we describe our newest package for enriching Twitter data

XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text

We use Large Multilingual Language Models to create a tool for multilingual emotion prediction

Language in a (Search) Box: Grounding Language Learning in Real-World Human-Machine Interaction

We investigate grounded language learning through real-world data, by modelling a teacher-learner dynamics through the natural interactions occurring between users and search engines.

Query2Prod2Vec: Grounded Word Embeddings for eCommerce

We present Query2Prod2Vec, a model that grounds lexical representations for product search in product embeddings: in our model, meaning is a mapping between words and a latent space of products in a digital shop. We leverage shopping sessions to learn the underlying space and use merchandising annotations to build lexical analogies for evaluation: our experiments show that our model is more accurate than known techniques from the NLP and IR literature. Finally, we stress the importance of data efficiency for product search outside of retail giants, and highlight how Query2Prod2Vec fits with practical constraints faced by most practitioners.

Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot Learning

We introduce a novel topic modeling method that can make use of contextulized embeddings (e.g., BERT) to do zero-shot cross-lingual topic modeling.

FEEL-IT: Emotion and Sentiment Classification for the Italian Language

Sentiment analysis is a common task to understand people's reactions online. Still, we often need more nuanced information: is the post negative because the user is angry or because they are sad? An abundance of approaches has been introduced for …

Fantastic Embeddings and How to Align Them: Zero-Shot Inference in a Multi-Shop Scenario

In this paper we work on aligning product embeddings that come from different shops. We use techniques from machine translation to provide an effective method for alignment.