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Evaluation plays a crucial role in development of Machine translation systems. In order to judge the quality of an existing MT system i.e. if the translated output is of human translation quality or not, various automatic metrics exist. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Aditi Kalyani , Hemant Kumud , Shashi Pal Singh , Ajai Kumar , Hemant Darbari

While humans process language incrementally, the best language encoders currently used in NLP do not. Both bidirectional LSTMs and Transformers assume that the sequence that is to be encoded is available in full, to be processed either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Brielen Madureira , David Schlangen

Sentiment analysis plays a crucial role in understanding developer interactions, issue resolutions, and project dynamics within software engineering (SE). While traditional SE-specific sentiment analysis tools have made significant strides,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-22 KM Khalid Saifullah , Faiaz Azmain , Habiba Hye

In this paper, we compare automated metrical pattern identification systems available for Spanish against extensive experiments done by fine-tuning language models trained on the same task. Despite being initially conceived as a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Javier de la Rosa , Salvador Ros , Elena González-Blanco

Automatic metrics play a crucial role in machine translation. Despite the widespread use of n-gram-based metrics, there has been a recent surge in the development of pre-trained model-based metrics that focus on measuring sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yiming Yan , Tao Wang , Chengqi Zhao , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen , Mingxuan Wang

Though the community has made great progress on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) task, most of the previous works are solving English-based MRC problems, and there are few efforts on other languages mainly due to the lack of large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Bing Qin , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Multilingual BERT (mBERT) has shown reasonable capability for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer when fine-tuned on downstream tasks. Since mBERT is not pre-trained with explicit cross-lingual supervision, transfer performance can further be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Saurabh Kulshreshtha , José Luis Redondo-García , Ching-Yun Chang

We present a simple and effective pretraining strategy -- bidirectional training (BiT) for neural machine translation. Specifically, we bidirectionally update the model parameters at the early stage and then tune the model normally. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Liang Ding , Di Wu , Dacheng Tao

We propose procedures for evaluating and strengthening contextual embedding alignment and show that they are useful in analyzing and improving multilingual BERT. In particular, after our proposed alignment procedure, BERT exhibits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Steven Cao , Nikita Kitaev , Dan Klein

By using a trigram model and fine-tuning a pretrained BERT model for sequence classification, we show that machine translation and human translation can be classified with an accuracy above chance level, which suggests that machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yingxue Fu , Mark-Jan Nederhof

GPT-2 and BERT demonstrate the effectiveness of using pre-trained language models (LMs) on various natural language processing tasks. However, LM fine-tuning often suffers from catastrophic forgetting when applied to resource-rich tasks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jiacheng Yang , Mingxuan Wang , Hao Zhou , Chengqi Zhao , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang , Lei Li

Human evaluation of modern high-quality machine translation systems is a difficult problem, and there is increasing evidence that inadequate evaluation procedures can lead to erroneous conclusions. While there has been considerable research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Markus Freitag , George Foster , David Grangier , Viresh Ratnakar , Qijun Tan , Wolfgang Macherey

Machine learning methods have recently achieved high-performance in biomedical text analysis. However, a major bottleneck in the widespread application of these methods is obtaining the required large amounts of annotated training data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xing Meng , Craig H. Ganoe , Ryan T. Sieberg , Yvonne Y. Cheung , Saeed Hassanpour

We frame the task of machine translation evaluation as one of scoring machine translation output with a sequence-to-sequence paraphraser, conditioned on a human reference. We propose training the paraphraser as a multilingual NMT system,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Brian Thompson , Matt Post

Text classification problem is a very broad field of study in the field of natural language processing. In short, the text classification problem is to determine which of the previously determined classes the given text belongs to.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 D. Emre Taşar , Şükrü Ozan , M. Fatih Akca , Oğuzhan Ölmez , Semih Gülüm , Seçilay Kutal , Ceren Belhan

Machine Translation (MT) Evaluation is an integral part of the MT development life cycle. Without analyzing the outputs of MT engines, it is impossible to evaluate the performance of an MT system. Through experiments, it has been identified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Nisheeth Joshi , Pragya Katyayan , Palak Arora

This paper enhances the study of sentiment analysis for the Central Kurdish language by integrating the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) into Natural Language Processing techniques. Kurdish is a low-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kozhin muhealddin Awlla , Hadi Veisi , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

We present a systematic investigation of layer-wise BERT activations for general-purpose text representations to understand what linguistic information they capture and how transferable they are across different tasks. Sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Xiaofei Ma , Zhiguo Wang , Patrick Ng , Ramesh Nallapati , Bing Xiang

Inspired by the success of the Transformer model in natural language processing and computer vision, this paper introduces BERT-PIN, a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) powered Profile Inpainting Network.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Yi Hu , Kai Ye , Hyeonjin Kim , Ning Lu

Machine translation (MT) of user-generated content (UGC) poses unique challenges, including handling slang, emotion, and literary devices like irony and sarcasm. Evaluating the quality of these translations is challenging as current metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shenbin Qian , Constantin Orăsan , Diptesh Kanojia , Félix do Carmo