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Natural language-based assessment (NLA) is an approach to second language assessment that uses instructions - expressed in the form of can-do descriptors - originally intended for human examiners, aiming to determine whether large language…

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In this paper we present first results from a comparative study. Its aim is to test the feasibility of different inductive learning techniques to perform the automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge within a natural language database…

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Natural language interfaces (NLIs) enable users to flexibly specify analytical intentions in data visualization. However, diagnosing the visualization results without understanding the underlying generation process is challenging. Our…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yingchaojie Feng , Xingbo Wang , Bo Pan , Kam Kwai Wong , Yi Ren , Shi Liu , Zihan Yan , Yuxin Ma , Huamin Qu , Wei Chen

Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamentally important task in natural language processing that has many applications. The recently released Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus has made it possible to develop and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang

Most existing natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBs) were designed to be used with ``snapshot'' database systems, that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data. Consequently, most NLIDBs also provide…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ion Androutsopoulos

Over the past thirty years, there has been considerable progress in the design of natural language interfaces to databases. Most of this work has concerned snapshot databases, in which there are only limited facilities for manipulating…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 I. Androutsopoulos , G. D. Ritchie , P. Thanisch

Native language identification (NLI) is the task of training (via supervised machine learning) a classifier that guesses the native language of the author of a text. This task has been extensively researched in the last decade, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Barbara Berti , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Natural language user interfaces to database systems have been studied for several decades now. They have mainly focused on parsing and interpreting natural language queries to generate them in a formal database language. We envision the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Alkis Simitsis , Yannis Ioannidis

In the recent past, a popular way of evaluating natural language understanding (NLU), was to consider a model's ability to perform natural language inference (NLI) tasks. In this paper, we investigate if NLI tasks, that are rarely used for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lovish Madaan , David Esiobu , Pontus Stenetorp , Barbara Plank , Dieuwke Hupkes

Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are involved. As a result, a multitude of novel works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinjie Ni , Tom Young , Vlad Pandelea , Fuzhao Xue , Erik Cambria

Existing Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets, while being instrumental in the advancement of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) research, are not related to scientific text. In this paper, we introduce SciNLI, a large dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Mobashir Sadat , Cornelia Caragea

Through a natural language interface (NLI) for exploratory visual analysis, users can directly "ask" analytical questions about the given tabular data. This process greatly improves user experience and lowers the technical barriers of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yi Guo , Danqing Shi , Mingjuan Guo , Yanqiu Wu , Qing Chen , Nan Cao

We present a large-scale collection of diverse natural language inference (NLI) datasets that help provide insight into how well a sentence representation captures distinct types of reasoning. The collection results from recasting 13…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Adam Poliak , Aparajita Haldar , Rachel Rudinger , J. Edward Hu , Ellie Pavlick , Aaron Steven White , Benjamin Van Durme

We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this new dataset leads to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yixin Nie , Adina Williams , Emily Dinan , Mohit Bansal , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela

Many search systems work with large amounts of natural language data, e.g., search queries, user profiles and documents, where deep learning based natural language processing techniques (deep NLP) can be of great help. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Weiwei Guo , Xiaowei Liu , Sida Wang , Michaeel Kazi , Zhoutong Fu , Huiji Gao , Jun Jia , Liang Zhang , Bo Long

While discriminative neural network classifiers are generally preferred, recent work has shown advantages of generative classifiers in term of data efficiency and robustness. In this paper, we focus on natural language inference (NLI). We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Xiaoan Ding , Tianyu Liu , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Kevin Gimpel

Translating Natural Language Queries (NLQs) to Structured Query Language (SQL) in interfaces deployed in relational databases is a challenging task, which has been widely studied in database community recently. Conventional rule based…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arif Usta , Akifhan Karakayali , Özgür Ulusoy

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Many search systems work with large amounts of natural language data, e.g., search queries, user profiles, and documents. Building a successful search system requires a thorough understanding of textual data semantics, where deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Weiwei Guo , Xiaowei Liu , Sida Wang , Michaeel Kazi , Zhiwei Wang , Zhoutong Fu , Jun Jia , Liang Zhang , Huiji Gao , Bo Long

Translating natural language to SQL for data retrieval has become more accessible thanks to code generation LLMs. But how hard is it to generate SQL code? While databases can become unbounded in complexity, the complexity of queries is…

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