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Since the appearance of BERT, recent works including XLNet and RoBERTa utilize sentence embedding models pre-trained by large corpora and a large number of parameters. Because such models have large hardware and a huge amount of data, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Sangah Lee , Hansol Jang , Yunmee Baik , Suzi Park , Hyopil Shin

Most pre-trained language models (PLMs) construct word representations at subword level with Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or its variations, by which OOV (out-of-vocab) words are almost avoidable. However, those methods split a word into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Wentao Ma , Yiming Cui , Chenglei Si , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Pre-trained Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, these models often have billions of parameters, and, thus, are too resource-hungry and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Prakhar Ganesh , Yao Chen , Xin Lou , Mohammad Ali Khan , Yin Yang , Hassan Sajjad , Preslav Nakov , Deming Chen , Marianne Winslett

The effectiveness of the BERT model on multiple linguistic tasks has been well documented. On the other hand, its potentials for narrow and specific domains such as Legal, have not been fully explored. In this paper, we examine how BERT can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Muhammad AL-Qurishi , Sarah AlQaseemi , Riad Soussi

As Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP), operating these large models in on-the-edge and/or under constrained computational training or inference budgets remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Victor Sanh , Lysandre Debut , Julien Chaumond , Thomas Wolf

Large Transformer-based language models such as BERT have led to broad performance improvements on many NLP tasks. Domain-specific variants of these models have demonstrated excellent performance on a variety of specialised tasks. In legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benjamin Clavié , Akshita Gheewala , Paul Briton , Marc Alphonsus , Rym Laabiyad , Francesco Piccoli

Multilingual pretrained language models (such as multilingual BERT) have achieved impressive results for cross-lingual transfer. However, due to the constant model capacity, multilingual pre-training usually lags behind the monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Heyan Huang

Language model (LM) pretraining can learn various knowledge from text corpora, helping downstream tasks. However, existing methods such as BERT model a single document, and do not capture dependencies or knowledge that span across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Michihiro Yasunaga , Jure Leskovec , Percy Liang

The introduction of the Transformer neural network, along with techniques like self-supervised pre-training and transfer learning, has paved the way for advanced models like BERT. Despite BERT's impressive performance, opportunities for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Farnaz Zeidi , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali , Çiğdem Erol

Although large pre-trained language models have achieved great success in many NLP tasks, it has been shown that they reflect human biases from their pre-training corpora. This bias may lead to undesirable outcomes when these models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Aristides Milios , Parishad BehnamGhader

Named entity recognition (NER) models generally perform poorly when large training datasets are unavailable for low-resource domains. Recently, pre-training a large-scale language model has become a promising direction for coping with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Zihan Liu , Feijun Jiang , Yuxiang Hu , Chen Shi , Pascale Fung

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

Transformer-based language models, more specifically BERT-based architectures have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many downstream tasks. However, for a relatively low-resource language such as Thai, the choices of models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Lalita Lowphansirikul , Charin Polpanumas , Nawat Jantrakulchai , Sarana Nutanong

This paper describes the training process of the first Czech monolingual language representation models based on BERT and ALBERT architectures. We pre-train our models on more than 340K of sentences, which is 50 times more than multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Jakub Sido , Ondřej Pražák , Pavel Přibáň , Jan Pašek , Michal Seják , Miloslav Konopík

This paper conducts a comprehensive investigation into applying large language models, particularly on BioBERT, in healthcare. It begins with thoroughly examining previous natural language processing (NLP) approaches in healthcare, shedding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Shyni Sharaf , V. S. Anoop

Advances in transformer-based language models have highlighted the benefits of language-specific pre-training on high-quality corpora. In this context, German NLP stands to gain from updated architectures and modern datasets tailored to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Raphael Scheible-Schmitt , Johann Frei

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has shown marvelous improvements across various NLP tasks, and its consecutive variants have been proposed to further improve the performance of the pre-trained language models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Bing Qin , Ziqing Yang

Recent breakthroughs of pretrained language models have shown the effectiveness of self-supervised learning for a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In addition to standard syntactic and semantic NLP tasks, pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , William Yang Wang , Veselin Stoyanov

There has been significant progress in recent years in the field of Natural Language Processing thanks to the introduction of the Transformer architecture. Current state-of-the-art models, via a large number of parameters and pre-training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Carlos Aspillaga , Andrés Carvallo , Vladimir Araujo

Motivation: A perennial challenge for biomedical researchers and clinical practitioners is to stay abreast with the rapid growth of publications and medical notes. Natural language processing (NLP) has emerged as a promising direction for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Robert Tinn , Hao Cheng , Yu Gu , Naoto Usuyama , Xiaodong Liu , Tristan Naumann , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon