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Correctly identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) is an important task for most natural language processing systems since their misidentification can result in ambiguity and misunderstanding of the underlying text. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Andrei-Marius Avram , Verginica Barbu Mititelu , Vasile Păiş , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu

We propose a new model for learning bilingual word representations from non-parallel document-aligned data. Following the recent advances in word representation learning, our model learns dense real-valued word vectors, that is, bilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Ivan Vulić , Marie-Francine Moens

Event extraction is of practical utility in natural language processing. In the real world, it is a common phenomenon that multiple events existing in the same sentence, where extracting them are more difficult than extracting a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Xiao Liu , Zhunchen Luo , Heyan Huang

Contextualized word embeddings (CWE) such as provided by ELMo (Peters et al., 2018), Flair NLP (Akbik et al., 2018), or BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) are a major recent innovation in NLP. CWEs provide semantic vector representations of words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gregor Wiedemann , Steffen Remus , Avi Chawla , Chris Biemann

Definition Extraction (DE) is one of the well-known topics in Information Extraction that aims to identify terms and their corresponding definitions in unstructured texts. This task can be formalized either as a sentence classification task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

Neural networks with tree-based sentence encoders have shown better results on many downstream tasks. Most of existing tree-based encoders adopt syntactic parsing trees as the explicit structure prior. To study the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Haoyue Shi , Hao Zhou , Jiaze Chen , Lei Li

Named entity recognition is one of the core tasks in NLP. Although many improvements have been made on this task during the last years, the state-of-the-art systems do not explicitly take into account the recursive nature of language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Gustavo Aguilar , Thamar Solorio

We present a deep hierarchical recurrent neural network for sequence tagging. Given a sequence of words, our model employs deep gated recurrent units on both character and word levels to encode morphology and context information, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Zhilin Yang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William Cohen

Bilingual Word Embeddings (BWEs) are one of the cornerstones of cross-lingual transfer of NLP models. They can be built using only monolingual corpora without supervision leading to numerous works focusing on unsupervised BWEs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Silvia Severini , Viktor Hangya , Masoud Jalili Sabet , Alexander Fraser , Hinrich Schütze

Semantic parsing is the task of transducing natural language (NL) utterances into formal meaning representations (MRs), commonly represented as tree structures. Annotating NL utterances with their corresponding MRs is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Pengcheng Yin , Chunting Zhou , Junxian He , Graham Neubig

We propose an unsupervised approach to paraphrasing multiword expressions (MWEs) in context. Our model employs only monolingual corpus data and pre-trained language models (without fine-tuning), and does not make use of any external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Takashi Wada , Yuji Matsumoto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

This paper aims to construct a linguistic resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis (FBSA): DECO-MWE. Dealing with multiword expressions (MWEs) has been a critical issue in FBSA since many constructs…

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In practical scenario, relation extraction needs to first identify entity pairs that have relation and then assign a correct relation class. However, the number of non-relation entity pairs in context (negative instances) usually far…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Wei Ye , Bo Li , Rui Xie , Zhonghao Sheng , Long Chen , Shikun Zhang

Self-evolving language-model agents must decide what to learn next and how to preserve what they have learned across iterations. Existing systems typically carry this cross-iteration knowledge as natural-language feedback, flat episodic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ruiyi Yang , Zechen Li , Hao Xue , Imran Razzak , Flora D. Salim

One of the key issues in both natural language understanding and generation is the appropriate processing of Multiword Expressions (MWEs). MWEs pose a huge problem to the precise language processing due to their idiosyncratic nature and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Dipankar Das , Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Scaling up the number of parameters of language models has proven to be an effective approach to improve performance. For dense models, increasing model size proportionally increases the model's computation footprint. In this work, we seek…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , James Lee-Thorp , Isaac Noble , Chung-Ching Chang , David Uthus

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a heterogeneous set with a glaring need for classifications. Designing a satisfactory classification involves choosing features. In the case of MWEs, many features are a priori available. Not all features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Eric Laporte

Memory retrieval in agentic large language model (LLM) systems is often treated as a static lookup problem, relying on flat vector search or fixed binary relational graphs. However, fixed graph structures cannot capture the varying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dongming Jiang , Yi Li , Guanpeng Li , Qiannan Li , Bingzhe Li

The Mutual Information (MI) is an often used measure of dependency between two random variables utilized in information theory, statistics and machine learning. Recently several MI estimators have been proposed that can achieve parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Morteza Noshad , Yu Zeng , Alfred O. Hero

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have become the dominant choice for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs), activating only a subset of parameters per token. While MoE architectures are primarily adopted for computational efficiency,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jeremy Herbst , Stefan Wermter , Jae Hee Lee