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The eventual goal of a language model is to accurately predict the value of a missing word given its context. We present an approach to word prediction that is based on learning a representation for each word as a function of words and…

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Using NLP to analyze authentic learner language helps to build automated assessment and feedback tools. It also offers new and extensive insights into the development of second language production. However, there is a lack of research…

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Small class-imbalanced datasets, common in many high-level semantic tasks like discourse analysis, present a particular challenge to current deep-learning architectures. In this work, we perform an extensive analysis on sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Alexander Spangher , Jonathan May , Sz-rung Shiang , Lingjia Deng

Estimating the difficulty level of math word problems is an important task for many educational applications. Identification of relevant and irrelevant sentences in math word problems is an important step for calculating the difficulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Suleyman Cetintas , Luo Si , Yan Ping Xin , Dake Zhang , Joo Young Park , Ron Tzur

Estimating the cognitive complexity of reading comprehension (RC) items is crucial for assessing item difficulty before it is administered to learners. Unlike syntactic and semantic features, such as passage length or semantic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Seonjeong Hwang , Hyounghun Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Sentiment analysis on user reviews helps to keep track of user reactions towards products, and make advices to users about what to buy. State-of-the-art review-level sentiment classification techniques could give pretty good precisions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Yongfeng Zhang , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma

Sentence-level Quality estimation (QE) of machine translation is traditionally formulated as a regression task, and the performance of QE models is typically measured by Pearson correlation with human labels. Recent QE models have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Shuo Sun , Ahmed El-Kishky , Vishrav Chaudhary , James Cross , Francisco Guzmán , Lucia Specia

The problem of accurately predicting relative reading difficulty across a set of sentences arises in a number of important natural language applications, such as finding and curating effective usage examples for intelligent language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Elliot Schumacher , Maxine Eskenazi , Gwen Frishkoff , Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Sentence-level relation extraction mainly aims to classify the relation between two entities in a sentence. The sentence-level relation extraction corpus often contains data that are difficult for the model to infer or noise data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Seongsik Park , Harksoo Kim

We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. First, our model estimates the probability that word sequences in a document are ones that a human would pick when selecting candidate answers by training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sandeep Subramanian , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

A classifier is considered interpretable if each of its decisions has an explanation which is small enough to be easily understood by a human user. A DNF formula can be seen as a binary classifier $\kappa$ over boolean domains. The size of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Martin C. Cooper , Imane Bousdira , Clément Carbonnel

This paper revisits the problem of complex word identification (CWI) following up the SemEval CWI shared task. We use ensemble classifiers to investigate how well computational methods can discriminate between complex and non-complex words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Marcos Zampieri , Shervin Malmasi , Gustavo Paetzold , Lucia Specia

In this study, we employ a classification approach to show that different categories of literary "quality" display unique linguistic profiles, leveraging a corpus that encompasses titles from the Norton Anthology, Penguin Classics series,…

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A systematic review identifies and collates various clinical studies and compares data elements and results in order to provide an evidence based answer for a particular clinical question. The process is manual and involves lot of time. A…

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The phrase grounding task aims to ground each entity mention in a given caption of an image to a corresponding region in that image. Although there are clear dependencies between how different mentions of the same caption should be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jiacheng Liu , Julia Hockenmaier

Automata learning is a technique that has successfully been applied in verification, with the automaton type varying depending on the application domain. Adaptations of automata learning algorithms for increasingly complex types of automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Gerco van Heerdt , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

Neural keyphrase generation models have recently attracted much interest due to their ability to output absent keyphrases, that is, keyphrases that do not appear in the source text. In this paper, we discuss the usefulness of absent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Florian Boudin , Ygor Gallina

Classification is a ubiquitous and fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive efforts dedicated to developing more powerful classifiers and larger datasets. However, the classification task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mario Franco , Gerardo Febres , Nelson Fernández , Carlos Gershenson

While LLMs have demonstrated remarkable potential in Question Answering (QA), evaluating personalization remains a critical bottleneck. Existing paradigms predominantly rely on lexical-level similarity or manual heuristics, often lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hang Su , Zequn Liu , Chen Hu , Xuesong Lu , Yingce Xia , Zhen Liu

Deep learning models continuously break new records across different NLP tasks. At the same time, their success exposes weaknesses of model evaluation. Here, we compile several key pitfalls of evaluation of sentence embeddings, a currently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Steffen Eger , Andreas Rücklé , Iryna Gurevych