Papers with embedding-based approaches
Modeling Multi-mapping Relations for Precise Cross-lingual Entity Alignment (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Entity alignment aims to find entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. |
| Approach: | They propose to use dot product-based functions to define dot products over embeddings to better capture semantics of 1-N, N-1 and N-N relations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on multilingual datasets. |
Knowledge Graph Alignment with Entity-Pair Embedding (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Knowledge Graph (KG) alignment are not satisfactory. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that directly learns embeddings of entity-pairs for KG alignment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can achieve state-of-the-art on five real-world datasets. |
Amory: Building Coherent Narrative-Driven Agent Memory through Agentic Reasoning (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | scalability challenges arise as conversations extend over weeks or months . current approaches fragment conversations into isolated embeddings or graph representations . |
| Approach: | They propose a working memory framework that actively constructs structured memory representations . the framework organizes conversational fragments into episodic narratives based on momentum . |
| Outcome: | Amory improves performance on LOCOMO benchmark while reducing response time by 50%. |
Mix-and-Match: Scalable Dialog Response Retrieval using Gaussian Mixture Embeddings (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for dialog response retrieval embed the context-response pairs as points in the embedding space. |
| Approach: | They propose a scalable model that can learn complex relationships between context-response pairs . they train the models by optimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the distributions induced by context-responders in the training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better than other embedding-based approaches on public conversation data. |
SentSim: Crosslingual Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Machine translation (MT) is currently evaluated in one of two ways: monolingually or trained crosslingually by building a supervised model to predict quality scores from human-labeled data. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised model that directly compares the source and machine translated sentence using strong pretrained multilingual word and sentence representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms glass-box approaches to quality estimation that rely on a supervised model. |
Probabilistic Case-based Reasoning for Open-World Knowledge Graph Completion (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for learning non-parametric representations of entities and relations are based on tensor factorization or sophisticated neural approaches. |
| Approach: | They propose a case-based reasoning system that retrieves ‘cases’ that are similar to the given problem and then stores them in its parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on several benchmark datasets and is non-parametric and grows dynamically as new entities and relations arrive in the KB. |
Aligning Cross-Lingual Entities with Multi-Aspect Information (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge graphs that represent entities in different languages are not covered by existing systems. |
| Approach: | They propose two ways to embed entities from multilingual knowledge graphs into the same vector space, where equivalent entities are close to each other. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms existing systems on two benchmark datasets. |
Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to user satisfaction estimation are hard to interpret and lack generalizable patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose to use supervised prompting to extract interpretable user satisfaction signals from natural language utterances to tailor an LLM to USE using labeled examples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method extracts interpretable signals of user satisfaction from natural language utterances more effectively than embedding-based approaches. |
Learning to Think on Hypergraph: HyperCoT for Structure-Guided N-ary Knowledge Graph Completion (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to solve knowledge hypergraph link prediction problem are limited by their ability to generate chain-of-thought (CoT) representations. |
| Approach: | They propose a structure-aware approach that models multi-hop structural reasoning as a depth-sensitive progressive evidence accumulation process. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on three real-world datasets show that HyperCoT outperforms strong n-ary KGC baselines while yielding interpretable multi-hop reasoning traces. |
Topic-Controllable Summarization: Topic-Aware Evaluation and Transformer Methods (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for topic-controllable summarization are limited by their recurrent architectures and require modifications to the model's architecture for controlling the topic. |
| Approach: | They propose a new topic-oriented evaluation measure to automatically evaluate the generated summaries based on the topic affinity between the generated summary and the desired topic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better performance compared to more complicated embedding-based approaches while also being significantly faster. |