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Social media such as Twitter is a hotspot of user-generated information. In this ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an abundance of data on social media which can be classified as informative and uninformative content. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Sirigireddy Dhanalaxmi , Rohit Agarwal , Aman Sinha

Tweets are specific text data when compared to general text. Although sentiment analysis over tweets has become very popular in the last decade for English, it is still difficult to find huge annotated corpora for non-English languages. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Valentin Barriere , Alexandra Balahur

The recently proposed BERT has shown great power on a variety of natural language understanding tasks, such as text classification, reading comprehension, etc. However, how to effectively apply BERT to neural machine translation (NMT) lacks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Di He , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

The FakeNews task in MediaEval 2022 investigates the challenge of finding accurate and high-performance models for the classification of conspiracy tweets related to COVID-19. In this paper, we used BERT, ELMO, and their combination for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Abdul Rehman , Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi , Irfan ul Haq Qureshi , Akmal Saeed Khattak

The Arabic language is a morphologically rich language with relatively few resources and a less explored syntax compared to English. Given these limitations, Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks like Sentiment Analysis (SA), Named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Wissam Antoun , Fady Baly , Hazem Hajj

In response to the Kaggle's COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) challenge, we have proposed three transformer-based question-answering systems using BERT, ALBERT, and T5 models. Since the CORD-19 dataset is unlabeled, we have evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Hillary Ngai , Yoona Park , John Chen , Mahboobeh Parsapoor

The proliferation of hate speech on social media platforms has necessitated the development of effective detection and moderation tools. This study evaluates the efficacy of various machine learning models in identifying hate speech and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Saurabh Mishra , Shivani Thakur , Radhika Mamidi

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers or BERT~\cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert} has been one of the base models for various NLP tasks due to its remarkable performance. Variants customized for different languages and tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ting Han , Kunhao Pan , Xinyu Chen , Dingjie Song , Yuchen Fan , Xinyu Gao , Ruyi Gan , Jiaxing Zhang

The field of NLP has seen unprecedented achievements in recent years. Most notably, with the advent of large-scale pre-trained Transformer-based language models, such as BERT, there has been a noticeable improvement in text representation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lili Wang , Chongyang Gao , Jason Wei , Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Soroush Vosoughi

Pretrained contextualized text representation models learn an effective representation of a natural language to make it machine understandable. After the breakthrough of the attention mechanism, a new generation of pretrained models have…

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

Effective communication in automated chat systems hinges on the ability to understand and respond to context. Traditional models often struggle with determining when additional context is necessary for generating appropriate responses. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Minghao Liu , Mingxiu Sui , Yi Nan , Cangqing Wang , Zhijie Zhou

Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often results in improved performance on downstream tasks. However, at some point further model increases become harder due to GPU/TPU memory limitations and longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhenzhong Lan , Mingda Chen , Sebastian Goodman , Kevin Gimpel , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Biomedical text mining is becoming increasingly important as the number of biomedical documents rapidly grows. With the progress in natural language processing (NLP), extracting valuable information from biomedical literature has gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jinhyuk Lee , Wonjin Yoon , Sungdong Kim , Donghyeon Kim , Sunkyu Kim , Chan Ho So , Jaewoo Kang

The underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice. In this work, we unify nine human-human and multi-turn task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

We present IndoBERTweet, the first large-scale pretrained model for Indonesian Twitter that is trained by extending a monolingually-trained Indonesian BERT model with additive domain-specific vocabulary. We focus in particular on efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Fajri Koto , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Deep learning technology can be used as an assistive technology to help doctors quickly and accurately identify COVID-19 infections. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown great potential towards image classification due to its global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Hongyan Xu , Xiu Su , Dadong Wang

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused globally significant impacts since the beginning of 2020. This brought a lot of confusion to society, especially due to the spread of misinformation through social media. Although there were already several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Douglas Raevan Faisal , Rahmad Mahendra

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, provide a suitable avenue for users (people or patients) concerned on health questions to discuss and share information with each other. In December 2019, a few coronavirus disease cases were first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Tiago de Melo

Domain adaptation of Pretrained Language Models (PTLMs) is typically achieved by unsupervised pretraining on target-domain text. While successful, this approach is expensive in terms of hardware, runtime and CO_2 emissions. Here, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Nina Poerner , Ulli Waltinger , Hinrich Schütze