Knowing the Author by the Company His Words Keep

What company do words keep? Revisiting the distributional semantics of J.R. Firth & Zellig Harris

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 know a word by the company it keeps," a …

You Shall Know the Most Frequent Sense by the Company it Keeps

Identification of the most frequent sense of a polysemous word is an important semantic task. We introduce two concepts that can benefit MFS detection: companions, which are the most frequently co-occurring words, and th…

Convolutional Neural Networks for Financial Text Regression

Forecasting financial volatility of a publicly-traded company from its annual reports has been previously defined as a text regression problem. Recent studies use a manually labeled lexicon to filter the annual reports b…

Company2Vec -- German Company Embeddings based on Corporate Websites

With Company2Vec, the paper proposes a novel application in representation learning. The model analyzes business activities from unstructured company website data using Word2Vec and dimensionality reduction. Company2Vec …

You Shall Know People by the Company They Keep: Person Name Disambiguation for Social Network Construction