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Estimation of semantic similarity is an important research problem both in natural language processing and the natural language understanding, and that has tremendous application on various downstream tasks such as question answering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 R. Prashanth

The surge of pre-trained language models has begun a new era in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) by allowing us to build powerful language models. Among these models, Transformer-based models such as BERT have become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mehrdad Farahani , Mohammad Gharachorloo , Marzieh Farahani , Mohammad Manthouri

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a transformative leap with the advent of transformer-based architectures, which have significantly enhanced the ability of machines to understand and generate human-like text. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianhao Wu , Yu Wang , Ngoc Quach

There has been growing interest in parameter-efficient methods to apply pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Building on the Prompt Tuning approach of Lester et al. (2021), which learns task-specific soft prompts to condition a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Tu Vu , Brian Lester , Noah Constant , Rami Al-Rfou , Daniel Cer

Transfer learning in reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to accelerate learning in new tasks by leveraging knowledge from related sources. Existing neurosymbolic transfer methods, however, typically rely on manually specified task automata,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mahyar Alinejad , Yue Wang , Amrit Singh Bedi , George Atia

Language model pre-training, such as BERT, has achieved remarkable results in many NLP tasks. However, it is unclear why the pre-training-then-fine-tuning paradigm can improve performance and generalization capability across different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Named entity recognition (NER) has been studied extensively and the earlier algorithms were based on sequence labeling like Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and conditional random fields (CRF). These were followed by neural network based deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Shalin Shah , Ryan Siskind

Although BERT is widely used by the NLP community, little is known about its inner workings. Several attempts have been made to shed light on certain aspects of BERT, often with contradicting conclusions. A much raised concern focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nikolaos Manginas , Ilias Chalkidis , Prodromos Malakasiotis

Relation classification is an important NLP task to extract relations between entities. The state-of-the-art methods for relation classification are primarily based on Convolutional or Recurrent Neural Networks. Recently, the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Shanchan Wu , Yifan He

With the evolution of the cloud and customer centric culture, we inherently accumulate huge repositories of textual reviews, feedback, and support data.This has driven enterprises to seek and research engagement patterns, user network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xin Deng , Ross Smith , Genevieve Quintin

Single document summarization has enjoyed renewed interests in recent years thanks to the popularity of neural network models and the availability of large-scale datasets. In this paper we develop an unsupervised approach arguing that it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

Learning distributed sentence representations is one of the key challenges in natural language processing. Previous work demonstrated that a recurrent neural network (RNNs) based sentence encoder trained on a large collection of annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Xueying Bai , Zhechao Huang , Chao Jiang , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

We consider the supervised training setting in which we learn task-specific word embeddings. We assume that we start with initial embeddings learned from unlabelled data and update them to learn task-specific embeddings for words in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha , Mohit Bansal , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

Transfer learning is a valuable tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Daniel Jakubovitz , David Uliel , Miguel Rodrigues , Raja Giryes

Unsupervised representation learning for speech processing has matured greatly in the last few years. Work in computer vision and natural language processing has paved the way, but speech data offers unique challenges. As a result, methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Joakim Edin , Lars Maaløe , Christian Igel

The use of transfer learning methods is largely responsible for the present breakthrough in Natural Learning Processing (NLP) tasks across multiple domains. In order to solve the problem of sentiment detection, we examined the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Olumide Ebenezer Ojo , Hoang Thang Ta , Alexander Gelbukh , Hiram Calvo , Olaronke Oluwayemisi Adebanji , Grigori Sidorov

Large-scale pretraining and task-specific fine-tuning is now the standard methodology for many tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, a multitude of methods have been proposed for pretraining vision and language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Emanuele Bugliarello , Ryan Cotterell , Naoaki Okazaki , Desmond Elliott

The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) were proposed in the natural language process (NLP) and shows promising results. Recently researchers applied the BERT to source-code representation learning and reported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Lan Zhang , Chen Cao , Zhilong Wang , Peng Liu

In this paper we present a novel Neural Network algorithm for conducting semi-supervised learning for sequence labeling tasks arranged in a linguistically motivated hierarchy. This relationship is exploited to regularise the representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Jonathan Godwin , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

The latest work on language representations carefully integrates contextualized features into language model training, which enables a series of success especially in various machine reading comprehension and natural language inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yuwei Wu , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li , Shuailiang Zhang , Xi Zhou , Xiang Zhou