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The recently proposed BERT has shown great power on a variety of natural language understanding tasks, such as text classification, reading comprehension, etc. However, how to effectively apply BERT to neural machine translation (NMT) lacks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Di He , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

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 Chinese BERT model dubbed MarkBERT that uses word information in this work. Existing word-based BERT models regard words as basic units, however, due to the vocabulary limit of BERT, they only cover high-frequency words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Linyang Li , Yong Dai , Duyu Tang , Xipeng Qiu , Zenglin Xu , Shuming Shi

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) represents the latest incarnation of pretrained language models which have recently advanced a wide range of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we showcase how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yang Liu , Mirella Lapata

A wide variety of neural-network architectures have been proposed for the task of Chinese word segmentation. Surprisingly, we find that a bidirectional LSTM model, when combined with standard deep learning techniques and best practices, can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Ji Ma , Kuzman Ganchev , David Weiss

More recently, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) was proposed and has achieved impressive success on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and language understanding, due mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Shih-Hsuan Chiu , Berlin Chen

Named entity recognition, and other information extraction tasks, frequently use linguistic features such as part of speech tags or chunkings. For languages where word boundaries are not readily identified in text, word segmentation is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Nanyun Peng , Mark Dredze

In this article I proposed a new model to achieve Chinese word segmentation(CWS),which may have the potentiality to apply in other domains in the future.It is a new thinking in CWS compared to previous works,to consider it as a clustering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yuze Zhao

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have exhibited remarkable performances in many tasks in natural language understanding (NLU). The tokens in the models are usually fine-grained in the sense that for languages like English they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xinsong Zhang , Pengshuai Li , Hang Li

A well formed query is defined as a query which is formulated in the manner of an inquiry, and with correct interrogatives, spelling and grammar. While identifying well formed queries is an important task, few works have attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Avinash Madasu , Anvesh Rao Vijjini

Chinese medical question-answer matching is more challenging than the open-domain question answer matching in English. Even though the deep learning method has performed well in improving the performance of question answer matching, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Xiongtao Cui , Jungang Han

Since automatic translations can contain errors that require substantial human post-editing, machine translation proofreading is essential for improving quality. This paper proposes a novel hybrid approach for robust proofreading that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Feijun Liu , Huifeng Wang , Kun Wang , Yizhen Wang

Different linguistic perspectives causes many diverse segmentation criteria for Chinese word segmentation (CWS). Most existing methods focus on improve the performance for each single criterion. However, it is interesting to exploit these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Xinchi Chen , Zhan Shi , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

In recent years, pre-trained models have been extensively studied, and several downstream tasks have benefited from their utilization. In this study, we verify the effectiveness of two methods that incorporate a BERT-based pre-trained model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hongfei Wang , Michiki Kurosawa , Satoru Katsumata , Mamoru Komachi

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have shown marvelous improvements across various NLP tasks. Most Chinese PLMs simply treat an input text as a sequence of characters, and completely ignore word information. Although Whole Word Masking can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xinnian Liang , Zefan Zhou , Hui Huang , Shuangzhi Wu , Tong Xiao , Muyun Yang , Zhoujun Li , Chao Bian

Word meaning, representation, and interpretation play fundamental roles in natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Many of the inherent difficulties in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lifeng Han , Gareth J. F. Jones , Alan F. Smeaton

Mainstream Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) approaches have employed BERT to extract semantics from both context and definitions of senses to determine the most suitable sense of a target word, achieving notable performance. However, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linhan Xia , Mingzhan Yang , Guohui Yuan , Shengnan Tao , Yujing Qiu , Guo Yu , Kai Lei

Contextualized word embeddings, i.e. vector representations for words in context, are naturally seen as an extension of previous noncontextual distributional semantic models. In this work, we focus on BERT, a deep neural network that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Timothee Mickus , Denis Paperno , Mathieu Constant , Kees van Deemter

Deep learning has shown promising performance on various machine learning tasks. Nevertheless, the uninterpretability of deep learning models severely restricts the usage domains that require feature explanations, such as text correction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Fanyu Wang , Hangyu Zhu , Zhenping Xie

Recent studies have shown effectiveness in using neural networks for Chinese word segmentation. However, these models rely on large-scale data and are less effective for low-resource datasets because of insufficient training data. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun