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Coreference resolution (CR) is an essential part of discourse analysis. Most recently, neural approaches have been proposed to improve over SOTA models from earlier paradigms. So far none of the published neural models leverage external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sopan Khosla , Carolyn Rose

Supervised models trained to predict properties from representations have been achieving high accuracy on a variety of tasks. For instance, the BERT family seems to work exceptionally well on the downstream task from NER tagging to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Tejas Vaidhya , Ayush Kaushal

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

In coreference resolution, it is important to consider all members of a coreference cluster and decide about all of them at once. This technique can help to avoid losing precision and also in finding long-distance relations. The presented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Aref Jafari , Ali Ghodsi

While composing a new document, anything from a news article to an email or essay, authors often utilize direct quotes from a variety of sources. Although an author may know what point they would like to make, selecting an appropriate quote…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Ansel MacLaughlin , Tao Chen , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Dan Roth

People are often entities of interest in tasks such as search and information extraction. In these tasks, the goal is to find as much information as possible about people specified by their name. However in text, some of the references to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Oshin Agarwal , Sanjay Subramanian , Ani Nenkova , Dan Roth

We present KPI-BERT, a system which employs novel methods of named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) to extract and link key performance indicators (KPIs), e.g. "revenue" or "interest expenses", of companies from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Lars Hillebrand , Tobias Deußer , Tim Dilmaghani , Bernd Kliem , Rüdiger Loitz , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Recent developments in Natural Language Processing have led to the introduction of state-of-the-art Neural Language Models, enabled with unsupervised transferable learning, using different pretraining objectives. While these models achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Muhammad Zohaib Khan

This work evaluates Sentence-BERT for a multi-label code comment classification task seeking to maximize the classification performance while controlling efficiency constraints during inference. Using a dataset of 13,216 labeled comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Fabian C. Peña , Steffen Herbold

We investigate modeling coreference resolution under a fixed memory constraint by extending an incremental clustering algorithm to utilize contextualized encoders and neural components. Given a new sentence, our end-to-end algorithm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Patrick Xia , João Sedoc , Benjamin Van Durme

Probing complex language models has recently revealed several insights into linguistic and semantic patterns found in the learned representations. In this paper, we probe BERT specifically to understand and measure the relational knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Jonas Wallat , Jaspreet Singh , Avishek Anand

No neural coreference resolver for Arabic exists, in fact we are not aware of any learning-based coreference resolver for Arabic since (Bjorkelund and Kuhn, 2014). In this paper, we introduce a coreference resolution system for Arabic based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Abdulrahman Aloraini , Juntao Yu , Massimo Poesio

In this paper, we introduce the NameRec* task, which aims to do highly accurate and fine-grained person name recognition. Traditional Named Entity Recognition models have good performance in recognising well-formed person names from text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rui Zhang , Yimeng Dai , Shijie Liu

The recently introduced BERT model exhibits strong performance on several language understanding benchmarks. In this paper, we describe a simple re-implementation of BERT for commonsense reasoning. We show that the attentions produced by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Coreference resolution in biomedical texts presents unique challenges due to complex domain-specific terminology, high ambiguity in mention forms, and long-distance dependencies between coreferring expressions. In this work, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Nourah M Salem , Elizabeth White , Michael Bada , Lawrence Hunter

Relation extraction (RE) consists in identifying and structuring automatically relations of interest from texts. Recently, BERT improved the top performances for several NLP tasks, including RE. However, the best way to use BERT, within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Walid Hafiane , Joel Legrand , Yannick Toussaint , Adrien Coulet

We introduce SetBERT, a fine-tuned BERT-based model designed to enhance query embeddings for set operations and Boolean logic queries, such as Intersection (AND), Difference (NOT), and Union (OR). SetBERT significantly improves retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Quan Mai , Susan Gauch , Douglas Adams

The resolution of ambiguous pronouns is a longstanding challenge in Natural Language Understanding. Recent studies have suggested gender bias among state-of-the-art coreference resolution systems. As an example, Google AI Language team…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Rakesh Chada

Enhancing machine capabilities to answer questions has been a topic of considerable focus in recent years of NLP research. Language models like Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo)[1] and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Suhas Gupta

Event coreference continues to be a challenging problem in information extraction. With the absence of any external knowledge bases for events, coreference becomes a clustering task that relies on effective representations of the context in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed , James H. Martin