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Systems for story generation are asked to produce plausible and enjoyable stories given an input context. This task is underspecified, as a vast number of diverse stories can originate from a single input. The large output space makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nader Akoury , Shufan Wang , Josh Whiting , Stephen Hood , Nanyun Peng , Mohit Iyyer

Language identification is used as the first step in many data collection and crawling efforts because it allows us to sort online text into language-specific buckets. However, many modern languages, such as Konkani, Kashmiri, Punjabi etc.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Milind Agarwal , Joshua Otten , Antonios Anastasopoulos

`Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions - audio, video and/or physiological recordings - or it may be textual. The added…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Steven Bird , Mark Liberman

We present SignCLIP, which re-purposes CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) to project spoken language text and sign language videos, two classes of natural languages of distinct modalities, into the same space. SignCLIP is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zifan Jiang , Gerard Sant , Amit Moryossef , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich , Sarah Ebling

With the evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) we can solve increasingly more complex NLP tasks across various domains, including spreadsheets. This work investigates whether LLMs can generate code (Excel OfficeScripts, a TypeScript API…

Automatic text summarization is widely regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of large text summarization data set. Due to the great challenge of constructing the large scale summaries for full text, in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Fangze Zhu

The preprocessing pipelines in Natural Language Processing usually involve a step of removing sentences consisted of illegal characters. The definition of illegal characters and the specific removal strategy depend on the task, language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Yingbo Gao , Weiyue Wang , Hermann Ney

The web is full of guidance on a wide variety of tasks, from changing the oil in your car to baking an apple pie. However, as content is created independently, a single task could have thousands of corresponding procedural texts. This makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Moran Mizrahi , Dafna Shahaf

Linking concepts and named entities to knowledge bases has become a crucial Natural Language Understanding task. In this respect, recent works have shown the key advantage of exploiting textual definitions in various Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-22 José Camacho Collados , Claudio Delli Bovi , Alessandro Raganato , Roberto Navigli

Media narratives wield tremendous power in shaping public opinion, yet computational approaches struggle to capture the nuanced storytelling structures that communication theory emphasizes as central to how meaning is constructed. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rohan Das , Advait Deshmukh , Alexandria Leto , Zohar Naaman , I-Ta Lee , Maria Leonor Pacheco

Deep learning based natural language processing model is proven powerful, but need large-scale dataset. Due to the significant gap between the real-world tasks and existing Chinese corpus, in this paper, we introduce a large-scale corpus of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jianyu Zhao , Zhuoran Ji

In recent years, narrative visualization has gained much attention. Researchers have proposed different design spaces for various narrative visualization genres and scenarios to facilitate the creation process. As users' needs grow and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Qing Chen , Shixiong Cao , Jiazhe Wang , Nan Cao

Here we introduce Narrative Context Protocol (NCP), an open-source narrative standard designed to enable narrative interoperability, AI-driven authoring tools, real-time emergent narratives, and more. By encoding a story's structure in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Hank Gerba

Goal-oriented generative script learning aims to generate subsequent steps to reach a particular goal, which is an essential task to assist robots or humans in performing stereotypical activities. An important aspect of this process is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Qingyun Wang , Manling Li , Hou Pong Chan , Lifu Huang , Julia Hockenmaier , Girish Chowdhary , Heng Ji

Many recent approaches to natural language tasks are built on the remarkable abilities of large language models. Large language models can perform in-context learning, where they learn a new task from a few task demonstrations, without any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hongjin Su , Jungo Kasai , Chen Henry Wu , Weijia Shi , Tianlu Wang , Jiayi Xin , Rui Zhang , Mari Ostendorf , Luke Zettlemoyer , Noah A. Smith , Tao Yu

Dense temporal annotation of procedural activity videos is vital for action understanding and embodied intelligence but remains labor-intensive due to reactive tools. Each correction is treated as an isolated edit, limiting reuse of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qian Yin , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , David Schneider , Zeyun Zhong , Alexander Jaus , Zdravko Marinov , Jiale Wei , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Yufan Chen , Chen Zhang , Lei Qi , Rainer Stiefelhagen

How can we interpret and retrieve medical evidence to support clinical decisions? Clinical trial reports (CTR) amassed over the years contain indispensable information for the development of personalized medicine. However, it is practically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maël Jullien , Marco Valentino , Hannah Frost , Paul O'Regan , Donal Landers , André Freitas

Information Extraction is a well-researched area of Natural Language Processing with applications in web search and question answering concerned with identifying entities and relationships between them as expressed in a given context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Erin Macdonald , Denilson Barbosa

We are concerned with the syntactic annotation of unrestricted text. We combine a rule-based analysis with subsequent exploitation of empirical data. The rule-based surface syntactic analyser leaves some amount of ambiguity in the output…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Pasi Tapanainen , Timo Järvinen

This work explores the application of textual entailment in news claim verification and stance prediction using a new corpus in Arabic. The publicly available corpus comes in two perspectives: a version consisting of 4,547 true and false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jude Khouja