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Humans express ideas, beliefs, and statements through language. The manner of expression can carry information indicating the author's degree of confidence in their statement. Understanding the certainty level of a claim is crucial in areas…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Denys Katerenchuk , Rivka Levitan

Thermodynamics of trajectories promises to make possible the thorough analysis of the dynamical properties of an open quantum system, a sought-after goal in modern physics. Unfortunately, calculation of the relevant quantities presents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Simon Pigeon , André Xuereb

Many methods have been used to recognize author personality traits from text, typically combining linguistic feature engineering with shallow learning models, e.g. linear regression or Support Vector Machines. This work uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Fei Liu , Julien Perez , Scott Nowson

The objective of this paper is to predict (A) whether a sentence in a written text expresses an emotion, (B) the mode(s) in which it is expressed, (C) whether it is basic or complex, and (D) its emotional category. One of our major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé

A well-known but rarely used approach to text categorization uses conditional entropy estimates computed using data compression tools. Text affinity scores derived from compressed sizes can be used for classification and ranking tasks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Nitya Kasturi , Igor L. Markov

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential across a broad range of applications. However, producing reliable text that faithfully represents data remains a challenge. While prior work has shown that task-specific…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Amandine M. Caut , Amy Rouillard , Beimnet Zenebe , Matthias Green , Ágúst Pálmason Morthens , David J. T. Sumpter

Topic Modelling is one of the most prevalent text analysis technique used to explore and retrieve collection of documents. The evaluation of the topic model algorithms is still a very challenging tasks due to the absence of gold-standard…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Antonio Penta

We use commercially available text analysis technology to process interview text data from a computational social science study. We find that topical clustering and terminological enrichment provide for convenient exploration and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jussi Karlgren , Renee Li , Eva M Meyersson Milgrom

The treatment of the number-theoretical problem of integer partitions within the approach of statistical mechanics is discussed. Historical overview is given and known asymptotic results for linear and plane partitions are reproduced. From…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Andrij Rovenchak

Recent years have seen remarkable progress of text generation in different contexts, such as the most common setting of generating text from scratch, and the emerging paradigm of retrieval-and-rewriting. Text infilling, which fills missing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Wanrong Zhu , Zhiting Hu , Eric Xing

Text Generation aims to produce plausible and readable text in a human language from input data. The resurgence of deep learning has greatly advanced this field, in particular, with the help of neural generation models based on pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Junyi Li , Tianyi Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Statistical methods have been widely employed in recent years to grasp many language properties. The application of such techniques have allowed an improvement of several linguistic applications, which encompasses machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Henrique F. de Arruda , Luciano da F. Costa , Diego R. Amancio

Automatic methods and metrics that assess various quality criteria of automatically generated texts are important for developing NLG systems because they produce repeatable results and allow for a fast development cycle. We present here an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

We study the finite temperature statistical mechanics of Hamiltonian paths between a set of N quenched randomly distributed points in a finite domain D. The energy of the path is a function of the distance between neighboring points on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 David S. Dean , David Lancaster , Satya N. Majumdar

Gender prediction has typically focused on lexical and social network features, yielding good performance, but making systems highly language-, topic-, and platform-dependent. Cross-lingual embeddings circumvent some of these limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Rob van der Goot , Nikola Ljubešić , Ian Matroos , Malvina Nissim , Barbara Plank

Statistical physics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study collective phenomena emerging from the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-11 Claudio Castellano , Santo Fortunato , Vittorio Loreto

We propose a novel conditioned text generation model. It draws inspiration from traditional template-based text generation techniques, where the source provides the content (i.e., what to say), and the template influences how to say it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hao Peng , Ankur P. Parikh , Manaal Faruqui , Bhuwan Dhingra , Dipanjan Das

Extracting topics from text has become an essential task, especially with the rapid growth of unstructured textual data. Most existing works rely on highly computational methods to address this challenge. In this paper, we argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Salma Mekaoui , Hiba Sofyan , Imane Amaaz , Imane Benchrif , Arsalane Zarghili , Ilham Chaker , Nikola S. Nikolov

Emotion is a crucial phenomenon in the functioning of human beings in society. However, it remains a widely open subject, particularly in its textual manifestations. This paper examines an industrial corpus manually annotated following an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jonas Noblet

With the rise of advanced natural language models like GPT, distinguishing between human-written and GPT-generated text has become increasingly challenging and crucial across various domains, including academia. The long-standing issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 A. Selvioğlu , V. Adanova , M. Atagoziev