no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Ido Dagan
We propose the novel \textit{Within-Between} Relation model for recognizing lexical-semantic relations between words.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2022 • Itzik Malkiel, Dvir Ginzburg, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Jonathan Weill, Noam Koenigstein
Recently, there has been growing interest in the ability of Transformer-based models to produce meaningful embeddings of text with several applications, such as text similarity.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2022 • Itzik Malkiel, Dvir Ginzburg, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Yoni Weill, Noam Koenigstein
We present MetricBERT, a BERT-based model that learns to embed text under a well-defined similarity metric while simultaneously adhering to the ``traditional'' masked-language task.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2022 • Oren Barkan, Edan Hauon, Avi Caciularu, Ori Katz, Itzik Malkiel, Omri Armstrong, Noam Koenigstein
Transformer-based language models significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in many linguistic tasks.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2021 • Oren Barkan, Roy Hirsch, Ori Katz, Avi Caciularu, Jonathan Weill, Noam Koenigstein
Next, we propose a novel hybrid recommendation algorithm that bridges these two conflicting objectives and enables a harmonized balance between preserving high accuracy for warm items while effectively promoting completely cold items.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2021 • Oren Barkan, Omri Armstrong, Amir Hertz, Avi Caciularu, Ori Katz, Itzik Malkiel, Noam Koenigstein
The algorithmic advantages of GAM are explained in detail, and validated empirically, where it is shown that GAM outperforms its alternatives across various tasks and datasets.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Dvir Ginzburg, Itzik Malkiel, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Noam Koenigstein
Hence, we introduce SDR, a self-supervised method for document similarity that can be applied to documents of arbitrary length.
1 code implementation • 16 Nov 2020 • Oren Barkan, Jonathan Benchimol, Itamar Caspi, Eliya Cohen, Allon Hammer, Noam Koenigstein
We present a hierarchical architecture based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for predicting disaggregated inflation components of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Itzik Malkiel, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Noam Razin, Ori Katz, Noam Koenigstein
In addition, we introduce a new language understanding task for wine recommendations using similarities based on professional wine reviews.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Oren Barkan, Idan Rejwan, Avi Caciularu, Noam Koenigstein
BHWR facilitates Variational Bayes word representation learning combined with semantic taxonomy modeling via hierarchical priors.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2020 • Oren Barkan, Ori Katz, Noam Koenigstein
An important problem in multiview representation learning is finding the optimal combination of views with respect to the specific task at hand.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2020 • Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Ori Katz, Noam Koenigstein
However, it is possible that a certain early movie may become suddenly more relevant in the presence of a popular sequel movie.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2019 • Oren Barkan
Self attention mechanisms have become a key building block in many state-of-the-art language understanding models.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2019 • Oren Barkan, Noam Razin, Itzik Malkiel, Ori Katz, Avi Caciularu, Noam Koenigstein
In this paper, we introduce Distilled Sentence Embedding (DSE) - a model that is based on knowledge distillation from cross-attentive models, focusing on sentence-pair tasks.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2018 • Oren Barkan, David Tsiris, Ori Katz, Noam Koenigstein
Sound synthesis is a complex field that requires domain expertise.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2016 • Oren Barkan, Noam Koenigstein, Eylon Yogev, Ori Katz
In Recommender Systems research, algorithms are often characterized as either Collaborative Filtering (CF) or Content Based (CB).
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2016 • Oren Barkan
Recently, several works in the domain of natural language processing presented successful methods for word embedding.
7 code implementations • 14 Mar 2016 • Oren Barkan, Noam Koenigstein
Many Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms are item-based in the sense that they analyze item-item relations in order to produce item similarities.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2016 • Oren Barkan, Jonathan Weill, Amir Averbuch
Many of the existing methods produce a low dimensional representation that attempts to describe the intrinsic geometric structure of the original data.
no code implementations • CVPR 2013 • Oren Barkan, Jonathan Weill, Amir Averbuch, Shai Dekel
One of the main challenges in Computed Tomography (CT) is how to balance between the amount of radiation the patient is exposed to during scan time and the quality of the CT image.