Lazhar Labiod


2024

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More Discriminative Sentence Embeddings via Semantic Graph Smoothing
Chakib Fettal | Lazhar Labiod | Mohamed Nadif
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

This paper explores an empirical approach to learn more discriminantive sentence representations in an unsupervised fashion. Leveraging semantic graph smoothing, we enhance sentence embeddings obtained from pretrained models to improve results for the text clustering and classification tasks. Our method, validated on eight benchmarks, demonstrates consistent improvements, showcasing the potential of semantic graph smoothing in improving sentence embeddings for the supervised and unsupervised document categorization tasks.