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Neural semantic parsing has achieved impressive results in recent years, yet its success relies on the availability of large amounts of supervised data. Our goal is to learn a neural semantic parser when only prior knowledge about a limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Yeyun Gong , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Daxin Jiang

We propose a simple neural architecture for natural language inference. Our approach uses attention to decompose the problem into subproblems that can be solved separately, thus making it trivially parallelizable. On the Stanford Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Ankur P. Parikh , Oscar Täckström , Dipanjan Das , Jakob Uszkoreit

Word discovery is the task of extracting words from unsegmented text. In this paper we examine to what extent neural networks can be applied to this task in a realistic unwritten language scenario, where only small corpora and limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marcely Zanon Boito , Alexandre Berard , Aline Villavicencio , Laurent Besacier

We propose an efficient modeling framework for cross-lingual named entity recognition in semi-structured text data. Our approach relies on both knowledge distillation and consistency training. The modeling framework leverages knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sunisth Kumar , Davide Liu , Alexandre Boulenger

This paper describes our system submitted to SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models. We present an efficient modular neuro-symbolic approach, combining a symbolic prover with small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ivan Kartáč , Kristýna Onderková , Jan Bronec , Zdeněk Kasner , Mateusz Lango , Ondřej Dušek

We introduce a novel algorithm for estimating optimal parameters of linearized assignment flows for image labeling. An exact formula is derived for the parameter gradient of any loss function that is constrained by the linear system of ODEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Alexander Zeilmann , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

We propose a method for large displacement optical flow in which local matching costs are learned by a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a smoothness prior is imposed by a conditional random field (CRF). We tackle the computation- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Gottfried Munda , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Patrick Knöbelreiter , Thomas Pock

For languages with no annotated resources, unsupervised transfer of natural language processing models such as named-entity recognition (NER) from resource-rich languages would be an appealing capability. However, differences in words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jiateng Xie , Zhilin Yang , Graham Neubig , Noah A. Smith , Jaime Carbonell

When a bilingual student learns to solve word problems in math, we expect the student to be able to solve these problem in both languages the student is fluent in,even if the math lessons were only taught in one language. However, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Armen Aghajanyan , Xia Song , Saurabh Tiwary

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

This study addresses the problem of identifying the meaning of unknown words or entities in a discourse with respect to the word embedding approaches used in neural language models. We proposed a method for on-the-fly construction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Sosuke Kobayashi , Naoaki Okazaki , Kentaro Inui

An effective method to improve extremely low-resource neural machine translation is multilingual training, which can be improved by leveraging monolingual data to create synthetic bilingual corpora using the back-translation method. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Maali Tars , Andre Tättar , Mark Fišel

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

In recent years, a significant number of high-quality pretrained models have emerged, greatly impacting Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Text Representation tasks. Traditionally, these models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Changshang Xue , Xiande Zhong , Xiaoqing Liu

Despite impressive empirical successes of neural machine translation (NMT) on standard benchmarks, limited parallel data impedes the application of NMT models to many language pairs. Data augmentation methods such as back-translation make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Chunting Zhou , Xuezhe Ma , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

We train neural networks to optimize a Minimum Description Length score, i.e., to balance between the complexity of the network and its accuracy at a task. We show that networks optimizing this objective function master tasks involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nur Lan , Michal Geyer , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

Despite the recent advancements of attention-based deep learning architectures across a majority of Natural Language Processing tasks, their application remains limited in a low-resource setting because of a lack of pre-trained models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Rachit Bansal , Himanshu Choudhary , Ravneet Punia , Niko Schenk , Jacob L Dahl , Émilie Pagé-Perron

In this paper, we present our first attempts in building a multilingual Neural Machine Translation framework under a unified approach. We are then able to employ attention-based NMT for many-to-many multilingual translation tasks. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Much work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been for resource-rich languages, making generalization to new, less-resourced languages challenging. We present two approaches for improving generalization to low-resourced languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Aditi Chaudhary , Chunting Zhou , Lori Levin , Graham Neubig , David R. Mortensen , Jaime G. Carbonell