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Language models that utilize extensive self-supervised pre-training from unlabeled text, have recently shown to significantly advance the state-of-the-art performance in a variety of language understanding tasks. However, it is yet unclear…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Itzik Malkiel , Oren Barkan , Avi Caciularu , Noam Razin , Ori Katz , Noam Koenigstein

Nowadays, offensive content in social media has become a serious problem, and automatically detecting offensive language is an essential task. In this paper, we build an offensive language detection system, which combines multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenliang Dai , Tiezheng Yu , Zihan Liu , Pascale Fung

Chinese BERT models achieve remarkable progress in dealing with grammatical errors of word substitution. However, they fail to handle word insertion and deletion because BERT assumes the existence of a word at each position. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Cong Zhou , Yong Dai , Duyu Tang , Enbo Zhao , Zhangyin Feng , Li Kuang , Shuming Shi

We study the problem of incorporating prior knowledge into a deep Transformer-based model,i.e.,Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), to enhance its performance on semantic textual matching tasks. By probing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tingyu Xia , Yue Wang , Yuan Tian , Yi Chang

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

BERT is inefficient for sentence-pair tasks such as clustering or semantic search as it needs to evaluate combinatorially many sentence pairs which is very time-consuming. Sentence BERT (SBERT) attempted to solve this challenge by learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yan Zhang , Ruidan He , Zuozhu Liu , Kwan Hui Lim , Lidong Bing

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

We present simple BERT-based models for relation extraction and semantic role labeling. In recent years, state-of-the-art performance has been achieved using neural models by incorporating lexical and syntactic features such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Peng Shi , Jimmy Lin

Query expansion aims to mitigate the mismatch between the language used in a query and in a document. However, query expansion methods can suffer from introducing non-relevant information when expanding the query. To bridge this gap,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhi Zheng , Kai Hui , Ben He , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Andrew Yates

Social media has become an essential part of the modern lifestyle, with its usage being highly prevalent. This has resulted in unprecedented amounts of data generated from users in social media, such as users' attitudes, opinions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mohammad Wali Ur Rahman , Sicong Shao , Pratik Satam , Salim Hariri , Chris Padilla , Zoe Taylor , Carlos Nevarez

We present BERTweet, the first public large-scale pre-trained language model for English Tweets. Our BERTweet, having the same architecture as BERT-base (Devlin et al., 2019), is trained using the RoBERTa pre-training procedure (Liu et al.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Anh Tuan Nguyen

Reverse dictionary is the task to find the proper target word given the word description. In this paper, we tried to incorporate BERT into this task. However, since BERT is based on the byte-pair-encoding (BPE) subword encoding, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Hang Yan , Xiaonan Li , Xipeng Qiu

AI-generated text detection plays an increasingly important role in various fields. In this study, we developed an efficient AI-generated text detection model based on the BERT algorithm, which provides new ideas and methods for solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hao Wang , Jianwei Li , Zhengyu Li

In this work we focus on fine-tuning a pre-trained BERT model and applying it to patent classification. When applied to large datasets of over two millions patents, our approach outperforms the state of the art by an approach using CNN with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jieh-Sheng Lee , Jieh Hsiang

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

Fact verification requires validating a claim in the context of evidence. We show, however, that in the popular FEVER dataset this might not necessarily be the case. Claim-only classifiers perform competitively with top evidence-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Tal Schuster , Darsh J Shah , Yun Jie Serene Yeo , Daniel Filizzola , Enrico Santus , Regina Barzilay

By introducing a small set of additional parameters, a probe learns to solve specific linguistic tasks (e.g., dependency parsing) in a supervised manner using feature representations (e.g., contextualized embeddings). The effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Zhiyong Wu , Yun Chen , Ben Kao , Qun Liu

BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) and RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019) has set a new state-of-the-art performance on sentence-pair regression tasks like semantic textual similarity (STS). However, it requires that both sentences are fed into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

This study aims to develop an efficient and accurate model for detecting malicious comments, addressing the increasingly severe issue of false and harmful content on social media platforms. We propose a deep learning model that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhou Fang , Hanlu Zhang , Jacky He , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng

Models trained to estimate word probabilities in context have become ubiquitous in natural language processing. How do these models use lexical cues in context to inform their word probabilities? To answer this question, we present a case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kanishka Misra , Allyson Ettinger , Julia Taylor Rayz