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Idioms are an important language phenomenon in Chinese, but idiom translation is notoriously hard. Current machine translation models perform poorly on idiom translation, while idioms are sparse in many translation datasets. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kenan Tang

To automatically correct handwritten assignments, the traditional approach is to use an OCR model to recognize characters and compare them to answers. The OCR model easily gets confused on recognizing handwritten Chinese characters, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yusen Zhang , Zhongli Li , Qingyu Zhou , Ziyi Liu , Chao Li , Mina Ma , Yunbo Cao , Hongzhi Liu

Idioms, are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Due to the properties of non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, Chinese Idioms are hard to be understood by children and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jipeng Qiang , Yang Li , Chaowei Zhang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu , Xindong Wu

Recently, much Chinese text error correction work has focused on Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) and Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED). In contrast, little attention has been paid to the complicated problem of Chinese Semantic Error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Bo Sun , Baoxin Wang , Yixuan Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dayong Wu , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu

Chinese idioms (Chengyu) are concise four-character expressions steeped in history and culture, whose literal translations often fail to capture their full meaning. This complexity makes them challenging for language models to interpret and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yicheng Fu , Zhemin Huang , Liuxin Yang , Yumeng Lu , Zhongdongming Dai

Cloze tests are widely adopted in language exams to evaluate students' language proficiency. In this paper, we propose the first large-scale human-created cloze test dataset CLOTH, containing questions used in middle-school and high-school…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Qizhe Xie , Guokun Lai , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is the task that asks a machine to answer questions based on a given context. For Chinese MRC, due to the non-literal and non-compositional semantic characteristics, Chinese idioms pose unique challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Siyu Long , Ran Wang , Kun Tao , Jiali Zeng , Xin-Yu Dai

Chinese input methods are used to convert pinyin sequence or other Latin encoding systems into Chinese character sentences. For more effective pinyin-to-character conversion, typical Input Method Engines (IMEs) rely on a predefined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Xihu Zhang , Chu Wei , Hai Zhao

Chinese idioms are special fixed phrases usually derived from ancient stories, whose meanings are oftentimes highly idiomatic and non-compositional. The Chinese idiom prediction task is to select the correct idiom from a set of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Minghuan Tan , Jing Jiang

Idiom translation is a challenging problem in machine translation because the meaning of idioms is non-compositional, and a literal (word-by-word) translation is likely to be wrong. In this paper, we focus on evaluating the quality of idiom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yutong Shao , Rico Sennrich , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. To add diversity in reading comprehension datasets, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Owing to the continuous efforts by the Chinese NLP community, more and more Chinese machine reading comprehension datasets become available. To add diversity in this area, in this paper, we propose a new task called Sentence Cloze-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Ziqing Yang , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Wanxiang Che , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

This paper analyzes challenges in cloze-style reading comprehension on multiparty dialogue and suggests two new tasks for more comprehensive predictions of personal entities in daily conversations. We first demonstrate that there are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Changmao Li , Tianhao Liu , Jinho D. Choi

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meanings often cannot be inferred from their individual words, making them difficult to process computationally and posing challenges for human experimental studies. This survey reviews datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Flor , Xinyi Liu , Anna Feldman

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they truly understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online -- commonly known as memes? In this paper, we introduce CHIME, a dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yubo Xie , Chenkai Wang , Zongyang Ma , Fahui Miao

Machine reading comprehension tasks require a machine reader to answer questions relevant to the given document. In this paper, we present the first free-form multiple-Choice Chinese machine reading Comprehension dataset (C^3), containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Idioms, whose figurative meanings usually differ from their literal interpretations, are common in everyday language, especially in Chinese, where they often contain historical references and follow specific structural patterns. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Cai Yang , Yao Dou , David Heineman , Xiaofeng Wu , Wei Xu

Language models (LMs) show state of the art performance for common sense (CS) question answering, but whether this ability implies a human-level mastery of CS remains an open question. Understanding the limitations and strengths of LMs can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Ehsan Qasemi , Lee Kezar , Jay Pujara , Pedro Szekely

We introduce SCDE, a dataset to evaluate the performance of computational models through sentence prediction. SCDE is a human-created sentence cloze dataset, collected from public school English examinations. Our task requires a model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xiang Kong , Varun Gangal , Eduard Hovy

We propose InDEX, an Indonesian Idiom and Expression dataset for cloze test. The dataset contains 10438 unique sentences for 289 idioms and expressions for which we generate 15 different types of distractors, resulting in a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xinying Qiu , Guofeng Shi
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