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Applying methods in natural language processing on electronic health records (EHR) data is a growing field. Existing corpus and annotation focus on modeling textual features and relation prediction. However, there is a paucity of annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yanjun Gao , Dmitriy Dligach , Timothy Miller , Samuel Tesch , Ryan Laffin , Matthew M. Churpek , Majid Afshar

Most existing cross-lingual summarization (CLS) work constructs CLS corpora by simply and directly translating pre-annotated summaries from one language to another, which can contain errors from both summarization and translation processes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yulong Chen , Huajian Zhang , Yijie Zhou , Xuefeng Bai , Yueguan Wang , Ming Zhong , Jianhao Yan , Yafu Li , Judy Li , Michael Zhu , Yue Zhang

Existing privacy-preserving speech representation learning methods target a single application domain. In this paper, we present a novel framework to anonymize utterance-level speech embeddings generated by pre-trained encoders and show its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

Privacy policy documents have a crucial role in educating individuals about the collection, usage, and protection of users' personal data by organizations. However, they are notorious for their lengthy, complex, and convoluted language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Joykirat Singh , Sehban Fazili , Rohan Jain , Md Shad Akhtar

With the rapid advancement of Natural Language Processing in recent years, numerous studies have shown that generic summaries generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can sometimes surpass those annotated by experts, such as journalists,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lemei Zhang , Peng Liu , Marcus Tiedemann Oekland Henriksboe , Even W. Lauvrak , Jon Atle Gulla , Heri Ramampiaro

This paper presents a new annotated corpus of 513 anonymized radiology reports written in Spanish. Reports were manually annotated with entities, negation and uncertainty terms and relations. The corpus was conceived as an evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Viviana Cotik , Darío Filippo , Roland Roller , Hans Uszkoreit , Feiyu Xu

This paper presents SaSLaW, a spontaneous dialogue speech corpus containing synchronous recordings of what speakers speak, listen to, and watch. Humans consider the diverse environmental factors and then control the features of their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Osamu Take , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Kentaro Seki , Yoshiaki Bando , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Sharing real-world speech utterances is key to the training and deployment of voice-based services. However, it also raises privacy risks as speech contains a wealth of personal data. Speaker anonymization aims to remove speaker information…

Having a quality annotated corpus is essential especially for applied research. Despite the recent focus of Web science community on researching about cyberbullying, the community dose not still have standard benchmarks. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Mohammadreza Rezvan , Saeedeh Shekarpour , Lakshika Balasuriya , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Valerie Shalin , Amit Sheth

This article presents the application of the Universal Named Entity framework to generate automatically annotated corpora. By using a workflow that extracts Wikipedia data and meta-data and DBpedia information, we generated an English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Diego Alves , Gaurish Thakkar , Marko Tadić

The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pierre Champion

Protecting speaker identity is crucial for online voice applications, yet streaming speaker anonymization (SA) remains underexplored. Recent research has demonstrated that neural audio codec (NAC) provides superior speaker feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikita Kuzmin , Songting Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

Automatic speech recognition for French medical conversations remains challenging, with word error rates often exceeding 30% in spontaneous clinical speech. This study proposes a multi-pass LLM post-processing architecture alternating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ambre Marie , Thomas Bertin , Guillaume Dardenne , Gwenolé Quellec

Despite biographies are widely spread within the Semantic Web, resources and approaches to automatically extract biographical events are limited. Such limitation reduces the amount of structured, machine-readable biographical information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Marco Antonio Stranisci , Enrico Mensa , Ousmane Diakite , Daniele Radicioni , Rossana Damiano

Named Entity Recognition (NER) from speech is among Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks, aiming to extract semantic information from the speech signal. NER from speech is usually made through a two-step pipeline that consists of (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Boli Chen , Guangwei Xu , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Fei Huang

This work proposes a frame-wise online/streaming end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method, which detects speaker activities in a frame-in-frame-out fashion. The proposed model mainly consists of a causal embedding encoder and an online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Di Liang , Xiaofei Li

Semantic Overlap Summarization (SOS) is a constrained multi-document summarization task, where the constraint is to capture the common/overlapping information between two alternative narratives. In this work, we perform a benchmarking study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 John Salvador , Naman Bansal , Mousumi Akter , Souvika Sarkar , Anupam Das , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker

We describe an effort to annotate a corpus of natural language instructions consisting of 622 wet lab protocols to facilitate automatic or semi-automatic conversion of protocols into a machine-readable format and benefit biological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Chaitanya Kulkarni , Wei Xu , Alan Ritter , Raghu Machiraju

The availability of large, high-quality emotional speech databases is essential for advancing speech emotion recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios. However, many existing databases face limitations in size, emotional balance, and…