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Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores or probabilities. We present a comparison of different information presentations for uncertain data and, for the first time, measure their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Dimitra Gkatzia , Oliver Lemon , Verena Rieser

The majority of NLG evaluation relies on automatic metrics, such as BLEU . In this paper, we motivate the need for novel, system- and data-independent automatic evaluation methods: We investigate a wide range of metrics, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Jekaterina Novikova , Ondřej Dušek , Amanda Cercas Curry , Verena Rieser

The neural boom that has sparked natural language processing (NLP) research through the last decade has similarly led to significant innovations in data-to-text generation (DTG). This survey offers a consolidated view into the neural DTG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Mandar Sharma , Ajay Gogineni , Naren Ramakrishnan

Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component in spoken dialogue system, which can be divided into two phases: (1) sentence planning: deciding the overall sentence structure, (2) surface realization: determining specific word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Natural language generation (NLG) spans a broad range of tasks, each of which serves for specific objectives and desires different properties of generated text. The complexity makes automatic evaluation of NLG particularly challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Mingkai Deng , Bowen Tan , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

We present a general approach towards controllable societal biases in natural language generation (NLG). Building upon the idea of adversarial triggers, we develop a method to induce societal biases in generated text when input prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Emily Sheng , Kai-Wei Chang , Premkumar Natarajan , Nanyun Peng

Existing evaluation metrics for natural language generation (NLG) tasks face the challenges on generalization ability and interpretability. Specifically, most of the well-performed metrics are required to train on evaluation datasets of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Pei Ke , Fei Huang , Fei Mi , Yasheng Wang , Qun Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Deep neural networks and huge language models are becoming omnipresent in natural language applications. As they are known for requiring large amounts of training data, there is a growing body of work to improve the performance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Michael A. Hedderich , Lukas Lange , Heike Adel , Jannik Strötgen , Dietrich Klakow

Large language models (LM) generate remarkably fluent text and can be efficiently adapted across NLP tasks. Measuring and guaranteeing the quality of generated text in terms of safety is imperative for deploying LMs in the real world; to…

Assessing instruction quality is a fundamental component of any improvement efforts in the education system. However, traditional manual assessments are expensive, subjective, and heavily dependent on observers' expertise and idiosyncratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Paiheng Xu , Jing Liu , Nathan Jones , Julie Cohen , Wei Ai

An increasing body of work has leveraged multilingual language models for Natural Language Generation tasks such as summarization. A major empirical bottleneck in this area is the shortage of accurate and robust evaluation metrics for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Silvia Casola , Ryan Soh-Eun Shim , Felicia Körner , Yuchen Mao , Barbara Plank

Machine learning (ML) has significantly advanced text classification by enabling automated understanding and categorization of complex, unstructured textual data. However, accurately capturing nuanced linguistic patterns and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Peiheng Gao , Chen Yang , Ning Sun , Ričardas Zitikis

Machine translation (MT) was developed as one of the hottest research topics in the natural language processing (NLP) literature. One important issue in MT is that how to evaluate the MT system reasonably and tell us whether the translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Lifeng Han

Based on the foundation of Large Language Models (LLMs), Multilingual LLMs (MLLMs) have been developed to address the challenges faced in multilingual natural language processing, hoping to achieve knowledge transfer from high-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuemei Xu , Ling Hu , Jiayi Zhao , Zihan Qiu , Kexin XU , Yuqi Ye , Hanwen Gu

Automatic metrics are essential for developing natural language generation (NLG) models, particularly for open-ended language generation tasks such as story generation. However, existing automatic metrics are observed to correlate poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jian Guan , Zhexin Zhang , Zhuoer Feng , Zitao Liu , Wenbiao Ding , Xiaoxi Mao , Changjie Fan , Minlie Huang

Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) is both a challenging NLP task and a common application in human daily life. Recently, many data-driven approaches are proposed for the development of CGEC research. However, there are two major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shirong Ma , Yinghui Li , Rongyi Sun , Qingyu Zhou , Shulin Huang , Ding Zhang , Li Yangning , Ruiyang Liu , Zhongli Li , Yunbo Cao , Haitao Zheng , Ying Shen

Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have stimulated growing interest in automating or assisting Business Process Modeling tasks using natural language. Several approaches have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 João Bettencourt , Sérgio Guerreiro

After just a few hundred training updates, a standard probabilistic model for language generation has likely not yet learnt many semantic or syntactic rules of natural language, making it difficult to estimate the probability distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Clara Meister , Wojciech Stokowiec , Tiago Pimentel , Lei Yu , Laura Rimell , Adhiguna Kuncoro

Recent breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been driven by language models trained on a massive amount of plain text. While powerful, deriving supervision from textual resources is still an open question. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Mingda Chen

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jessica Ficler , Yoav Goldberg