High-Level Text Preprocessing for Semantic Similarity Analysis of Discursive Texts: A Framework and Empirical Demonstration

arXiv:2609.33983 · cs.CL, cs.IR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.IR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Transformer — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Diffusion Index — 10× in this paper
• Semantic Similarity — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaffolding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — 5× in this paper
• Transformer Models — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Textual Similarity — 3× in this paper
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Standard Natural Language Processing — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Towards General Text Embeddings with Multi-stage Contrastive Learning
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training
• MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers

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