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Research on computational argumentation is currently being intensively investigated. The goal of this community is to find the best pro and con arguments for a user given topic either to form an opinion for oneself, or to persuade others to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Stefan Ollinger , Lorik Dumani , Premtim Sahitaj , Ralph Bergmann , Ralf Schenkel

This technical note describes a new baseline for the Natural Questions. Our model is based on BERT and reduces the gap between the model F1 scores reported in the original dataset paper and the human upper bound by 30% and 50% relative for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Chris Alberti , Kenton Lee , Michael Collins

Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) is a research area practiced by tech firms. Quantum developers face challenges in optimizing quantum computing and QSE concepts. They use Stack Overflow (SO) to discuss challenges and label posts with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nek Dil Khan , Javed Ali Khan , Mobashir Husain , Muhammad Sohail Khan , Arif Ali Khan , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Shahid Hussain

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) assigns documents to multiple levels of a pre-defined taxonomy. Automated patent subject classification represents one of the hardest HTC scenarios because of domain knowledge difficulty and a huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Lekang Jiang , Wenjun Sun , Stephan Goetz

In this paper, we tackle the problem of selecting the optimal model for a given structured pattern classification dataset. In this context, a model can be understood as a classifier and a hyperparameter configuration. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Gonzalo Nápoles , Isel Grau , Çiçek Güven , Orçun Özdemir , Yamisleydi Salgueiro

Small class-imbalanced datasets, common in many high-level semantic tasks like discourse analysis, present a particular challenge to current deep-learning architectures. In this work, we perform an extensive analysis on sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Alexander Spangher , Jonathan May , Sz-rung Shiang , Lingjia Deng

Developing AI systems capable of nuanced ethical reasoning is critical as they increasingly influence human decisions, yet existing models often rely on superficial correlations rather than principled moral understanding. This paper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mahamodul Hasan Mahadi , Md. Nasif Safwan , Souhardo Rahman , Shahnaj Parvin , Aminun Nahar , Kamruddin Nur

We present a novel supervised word alignment method based on cross-language span prediction. We first formalize a word alignment problem as a collection of independent predictions from a token in the source sentence to a span in the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Masaaki Nagata , Chousa Katsuki , Masaaki Nishino

Biomedical Question Answering aims to obtain an answer to the given question from the biomedical domain. Due to its high requirement of biomedical domain knowledge, it is difficult for the model to learn domain knowledge from limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Yuxuan Lu , Jingya Yan , Zhixuan Qi , Zhongzheng Ge , Yongping Du

Despite the rapid progress in multihop question-answering (QA), models still have trouble explaining why an answer is correct, with limited explanation training data available to learn from. To address this, we introduce three explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Harsh Jhamtani , Peter Clark

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) aims to extract answers to questions given a passage. It has been widely studied recently, especially in open domains. However, few efforts have been made on closed-domain MRC, mainly due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Taolin Zhang , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Bite Yang , Xiaofeng He , Jun Huang

Parallel deep learning architectures like fine-tuned BERT and MT-DNN, have quickly become the state of the art, bypassing previous deep and shallow learning methods by a large margin. More recently, pre-trained models from large related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Hemant Pugaliya , Karan Saxena , Shefali Garg , Sheetal Shalini , Prashant Gupta , Eric Nyberg , Teruko Mitamura

We introduce a high-quality dataset that contains 3,397 samples comprising (i) multiple choice questions, (ii) answers (including distractors), and (iii) their source documents, from the educational domain. Each question is phrased in two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Amir Hadifar , Semere Kiros Bitew , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

Automated classification of metadata of research data by their discipline(s) of research can be used in scientometric research, by repository service providers, and in the context of research data aggregation services. Openly available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Tobias Weber , Dieter Kranzlmüller , Michael Fromm , Nelson Tavares de Sousa

Despite pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved appealing performance in a wide range of natural language processing tasks, they are computationally expensive to be deployed in real-time applications. A typical method is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Lingyun Feng , Minghui Qiu , Yaliang Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen

In this paper, we report our method for the Information Extraction task in 2019 Language and Intelligence Challenge. We incorporate BERT into the multi-head selection framework for joint entity-relation extraction. This model extends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Weipeng Huang , Xingyi Cheng , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu

Citation recommendation systems for the scientific literature, to help authors find papers that should be cited, have the potential to speed up discoveries and uncover new routes for scientific exploration. We treat this task as a ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Rodrigo Nogueira , Zhiying Jiang , Kyunghyun Cho , Jimmy Lin

Pre-trained language models achieves high performance on machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks but the results are hard to explain. An appealing approach to make models explainable is to provide rationales for its decision. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jiajie Zou , Yuran Zhang , Peiqing Jin , Cheng Luo , Xunyi Pan , Nai Ding

Statistical models such as those derived from Item Response Theory (IRT) enable the assessment of students on a specific subject, which can be useful for several purposes (e.g., learning path customization, drop-out prediction). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Luca Benedetto , Andrea Cappelli , Roberto Turrin , Paolo Cremonesi

Multi-label text classification refers to the problem of assigning each given document its most relevant labels from the label set. Commonly, the metadata of the given documents and the hierarchy of the labels are available in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yu Zhang , Zhihong Shen , Yuxiao Dong , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han