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Slot filling and intent detection are two fundamental tasks in the field of natural language understanding. Due to the strong correlation between these two tasks, previous studies make efforts on modeling them with multi-task learning or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Baohang Zhou , Ying Zhang , Xuhui Sui , Kehui Song , Xiaojie Yuan

Multi-task learning (MTL) optimizes several learning tasks simultaneously and leverages their shared information to improve generalization and the prediction of the model for each task. Auxiliary tasks can be added to the main task to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Partoo Vafaeikia , Khashayar Namdar , Farzad Khalvati

Automated essay scoring (AES) is gaining increasing attention in the education sector as it significantly reduces the burden of manual scoring and allows ad hoc feedback for learners. Natural language processing based on machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sabrina Ludwig , Christian Mayer , Christopher Hansen , Kerstin Eilers , Steffen Brandt

We treat grammatical error correction (GEC) as a classification problem in this study, where for different types of errors, a target word is identified, and the classifier predicts the correct word form from a set of possible choices. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Zhu Kaili , Chuan Wang , Ruobing Li , Yang Liu , Tianlei Hu , Hui Lin

In this paper, we propose a two-layered multi-task attention based neural network that performs sentiment analysis through emotion analysis. The proposed approach is based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory and uses Distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Abhishek Kumar , Asif Ekbal , Daisuke Kawahra , Sadao Kurohashi

This study aims to explore the performance improvement method of large language models based on GPT-4 under the multi-task learning framework and conducts experiments on two tasks: text classification and automatic summary generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhen Qi , Jiajing Chen , Shuo Wang , Bingying Liu , Hongye Zheng , Chihang Wang

We perform neural machine translation of sentence fragments in order to create large amounts of training data for English grammatical error correction. Our method aims at simulating mistakes made by second language learners, and produces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Eetu Sjöblom , Mathias Creutz , Teemu Vahtola

Individual feedback can help students improve their essay writing skills. However, the manual effort required to provide such feedback limits individualization in practice. Automatically-generated essay feedback may serve as an alternative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Maja Stahl , Leon Biermann , Andreas Nehring , Henning Wachsmuth

Essay writing is a critical component of student assessment, yet manual scoring is labor-intensive and inconsistent. Automated Essay Scoring (AES) offers a promising alternative, but current approaches face limitations. Recent studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hind Aljuaid , Areej Alhothali , Ohoud Al-Zamzami , Hussein Assalahi

Text-based open-ended questions in academic formative and summative assessments help students become deep learners and prepare them to understand concepts for a subsequent conceptual assessment. However, grading text-based questions,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Rujun Gao , Hillary E. Merzdorf , Saira Anwar , M. Cynthia Hipwell , Arun Srinivasa

Automated writing evaluation systems can improve students' writing insofar as students attend to the feedback provided and revise their essay drafts in ways aligned with such feedback. Existing research on revision of argumentative writing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Tazin Afrin , Elaine Wang , Diane Litman , Lindsay C. Matsumura , Richard Correnti

Automatic sarcasm detection is the task of predicting sarcasm in text. This is a crucial step to sentiment analysis, considering prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text. Beginning with an approach that used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aditya Joshi , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark James Carman

Sentence scoring and sentence selection are two main steps in extractive document summarization systems. However, previous works treat them as two separated subtasks. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end neural network framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Shaohan Huang , Ming Zhou , Tiejun Zhao

Human beings often assess the aesthetic quality of an image coupled with the identification of the image's semantic content. This paper addresses the correlation issue between automatic aesthetic quality assessment and semantic recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Yueying Kao , Ran He , Kaiqi Huang

Automated answer matching, which leverages LLMs to evaluate free-text responses by comparing them to a reference answer, shows substantial promise as a scalable and aligned alternative to human evaluation. However, its reliability requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Manas Khatore , Sumana Sridharan , Kevork Sulahian , Benjamin J. Smith , Shi Feng

Self-supervised learning is currently gaining a lot of attention, as it allows neural networks to learn robust representations from large quantities of unlabeled data. Additionally, multi-task learning can further improve representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza

The most common tools for word-alignment rely on a large amount of parallel sentences, which are then usually processed according to one of the IBM model algorithms. The training data is, however, the same as for machine translation (MT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vilém Zouhar , Daria Pylypenko

Automatic photo aesthetic assessment is a challenging artificial intelligence task. Existing computational approaches have focused on modeling a single aesthetic score or a class (good or bad), however these do not provide any details on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Gautam Malu , Raju S. Bapi , Bipin Indurkhya

Automated essay scoring (AES) is a challenging task in cross-prompt settings due to the diversity of scoring criteria. While previous studies have focused on the output of large language models (LLMs) to improve scoring accuracy, we believe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jinwei Chi , Ke Wang , Yu Chen , Xuanye Lin , Qiang Xu

Automatic scoring system is extremely complex for any language. Because natural language itself is a complex model. When we evaluate articles generated by natural language, we need to view the articles from many dimensions such as word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Wanhong Huang