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Detecting fine-grained differences in content conveyed in different languages matters for cross-lingual NLP and multilingual corpora analysis, but it is a challenging machine learning problem since annotation is expensive and hard to scale.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Eleftheria Briakou , Marine Carpuat

Code-mixed discourse combines multiple languages in a single text. It is commonly used in informal discourse in countries with several official languages, but also in many other countries in combination with English or neighboring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Anjali Yadav , Tanya Garg , Matej Klemen , Matej Ulcar , Basant Agarwal , Marko Robnik Sikonja

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

This paper aims for a potential architectural improvement for multilingual learning and asks: Can different tasks from different languages be modeled in a monolithic framework, i.e. without any task/language-specific module? The benefit of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Pengfei Liu

We investigate a new setting for foreign language learning, where learners infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in a multimodal context of a sentence describing a paired image. We conduct studies with human participants using different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yufei Wang , Adriana Kovashka , Loretta Fernández , Marc N. Coutanche , Seth Wiener

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) still exhibit large performance gaps between English and other languages, yet much current work assumes these gaps can be closed simply by making reasoning in every language resemble English reasoning. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Dayeon Ki , Kevin Duh , Marine Carpuat

Combating online hate speech in multilingual settings requires approaches that go beyond English-centric models and capture the cultural and linguistic diversity of global online discourse. This paper presents a comprehensive survey and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zahra Safdari Fesaghandis , Suman Kalyan Maity

Multilingual Language Models offer a way to incorporate multiple languages in one model and utilize cross-language transfer learning to improve performance for different Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Despite progress in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hellina Hailu Nigatu , Atnafu Lambebo Tonja , Jugal Kalita

Multimodal sarcasm detection, which aims to precisely identify pragmatic incongruities between literal text and nonverbal cues, has gained substantial attention in multimodal understanding. Recent advancements have predominantly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maoheng Li , Ling Zhou , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Wenming Zheng , Guoying Zhao

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades. They have developed significantly in identifying the speech of the speaker. However, there is a scope of improvement in speech recognition systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Pierre Berjon , Avishek Nag , Soumyabrata Dev

This paper proposes to use distributed representation of words (word embeddings) in cross-language textual similarity detection. The main contributions of this paper are the following: (a) we introduce new cross-language similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-13 J. Ferrero , F. Agnes , L. Besacier , D. Schwab

Inspired by the 'Bias Considerations in Bilingual Natural Language Processing' report by Statistics Canada, this study delves into potential biases in multilingual sentiment analysis between English and French. Given a 50-50 dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ethan Parker Wong , Faten M'hiri

Recognizing sarcasm often requires a deep understanding of multiple sources of information, including the utterance, the conversational context, and real world facts. Most of the current sarcasm detection systems consider only the utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Reza Ghaeini , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Prasad Tadepalli

Detecting if a text is humorous is a hard task to do computationally, as it usually requires linguistic and common sense insights. In machine learning, humor detection is usually modeled as a binary classification task, trained to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Thomas Winters , Pieter Delobelle

The task of written language identification involves typically the detection of the languages present in a sample of text. Moreover, a sequence of text may not belong to a single inherent language but also may be mixture of text written in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mohd Zeeshan Ansari , Tanvir Ahmad , Ana Fatima

We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The central assumption of our work is that by combining cues from multiple languages, the structure of each becomes more apparent. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Tahira Naseem , Benjamin Snyder , Jacob Eisenstein , Regina Barzilay

This paper presents a multi-label stuttering detection system trained on multi-corpus, multilingual data in English, German, and Mandarin.By leveraging annotated stuttering data from three languages and four corpora, the model captures…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Felix Haas , Sebastian P. Bayerl

In this paper, we describe an approach to sentence categorization which has the originality to be based on natural properties of languages with no training set dependency. The implementation is fast, small, robust and textual errors…

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Closely related languages show linguistic similarities that allow speakers of one language to understand speakers of another language without having actively learned it. Mutual intelligibility varies in degree and is typically tested in…

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Hierarchical attention networks have recently achieved remarkable performance for document classification in a given language. However, when multilingual document collections are considered, training such models separately for each language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Nikolaos Pappas , Andrei Popescu-Belis