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Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Commonsense reasoning (CSR) requires the model to be equipped with general world knowledge. While CSR is a language-agnostic process, most comprehensive knowledge sources are in few popular languages, especially English. Thus, it remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yuwei Fang , Shuohang Wang , Yichong Xu , Ruochen Xu , Siqi Sun , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

One of the emerging research trends in natural language understanding is machine reading comprehension (MRC) which is the task to find answers to human questions based on textual data. Existing Vietnamese datasets for MRC research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Kiet Van Nguyen , Son Quoc Tran , Luan Thanh Nguyen , Tin Van Huynh , Son T. Luu , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

The current Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant challenges in improving their performance on low-resource languages and urgently need data-efficient methods without costly fine-tuning. From the perspective of language-bridge, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuemei Xu , Kexin Xu , Jian Zhou , Ling Hu , Lin Gui

We propose the SAMU-XLSR: Semantically-Aligned Multimodal Utterance-level Cross-Lingual Speech Representation learning framework. Unlike previous works on speech representation learning, which learns multilingual contextual speech embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Sameer Khurana , Antoine Laurent , James Glass

SemEval task 4 aims to find a proper option from multiple candidates to resolve the task of machine reading comprehension. Most existing approaches propose to concat question and option together to form a context-aware model. However, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Zhixiang Chen , Yikun Lei , Pai Liu , Guibing Guo

Biomedical language understanding benchmarks are the driving forces for artificial intelligence applications with large language model (LLM) back-ends. However, most current benchmarks: (a) are limited to English which makes it challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wei Zhu , Xiaoling Wang , Huanran Zheng , Mosha Chen , Buzhou Tang

Despite the recent developments in the field of cross-modal retrieval, there has been less research focusing on low-resource languages due to the lack of manually annotated datasets. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust cross-lingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yabing Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Tianxiang Liang , Minsong Zhang , Rui Cai , Xun Wang

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) as a challenge requires models to select the most appropriate answer from a set of candidates with a given passage and question. Most of the existing researches focus on the modeling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yilin Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel on benchmarks, their processing paradigm differs from the human ability to integrate visual information. Unlike humans who naturally bridge details and high-level concepts, models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ming Zhong , Yuanlei Wang , Liuzhou Zhang , Arctanx An , Renrui Zhang , Hao Liang , Ming Lu , Ying Shen , Wentao Zhang

Measuring sentence similarity is a key research area nowadays as it allows machines to better understand human languages. In this paper, we proposed a Cross-Attention Siamese Network (CATsNet) to carry out the task of learning the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Zhen Wang , Xiangxie Zhang , Yicong Tan

Coreference resolution involves the task of identifying text spans within a discourse that pertain to the same real-world entity. While this task has been extensively explored in the English language, there has been a notable scarcity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ritwik Mishra , Pooja Desur , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

We target the task of cross-lingual Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) in the direct zero-shot setting, by incorporating syntactic features from Universal Dependencies (UD), and the key features we use are the syntactic relations within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Liyan Xu , Xuchao Zhang , Bo Zong , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Jingchao Ni , Haifeng Chen , Liang Zhao , Jinho D. Choi

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims to generate a summary for the source text in a different target language. Currently, instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) excel at various English tasks. However, unlike languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhecheng Li , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Naifan Cheung , Nanyun Peng , Kai-wei Chang

A fundamental trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency needs to be balanced when designing an online question answering system. Effectiveness comes from sophisticated functions such as extractive machine reading comprehension (MRC),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ming Yan , Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Bin Bi , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , Luo Si , Rui Wang , Wei Wang , Haiqing Chen

In this paper, we aim to extract commonsense knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension. We propose to represent relations implicitly by situating structured knowledge in a context instead of relying on a pre-defined set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

In spite of much recent research in the area, it is still unclear whether subject-area question-answering data is useful for machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. In this paper, we investigate this question. We collect a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Machine reading comprehension has been an interesting and challenging task in recent years, with the purpose of extracting useful information from texts. To attain the computer ability to understand the reading text and answer relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Son T. Luu , Khoi Trong Hoang , Tuong Quang Pham , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Phrase-level dense retrieval has shown many appealing characteristics in downstream NLP tasks by leveraging the fine-grained information that phrases offer. In our work, we propose a new task formulation of dense retrieval, cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huayang Li , Deng Cai , Zhi Qu , Qu Cui , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Lemao Liu , Taro Watanabe

In light of recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) that have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), there is an urgent need for new benchmarks to keep pace with the fast development of LLMs. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jie Zhu , Junhui Li , Yalong Wen , Lifan Guo