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Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current resources of sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yusong Wang , Keyu Mao , Takao Obi , Minghao Shao , Kotaro Funakoshi

Recent advancement in large language models (LLMs) has offered a strong potential for natural language systems to process informal language. A representative form of informal language is slang, used commonly in daily conversations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zhewei Sun , Qian Hu , Rahul Gupta , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

Objective: To detect and classify features of stigmatizing and biased language in intensive care electronic health records (EHRs) using natural language processing techniques. Materials and Methods: We first created a lexicon and regular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Drew Walker , Annie Thorne , Sudeshna Das , Jennifer Love , Hannah LF Cooper , Melvin Livingston , Abeed Sarker

One of the components of natural language processing that has received a lot of investigation recently is semantic textual similarity. In computational linguistics and natural language processing, assessing the semantic similarity of words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mohammad Abdous , Poorya Piroozfar , Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli

Language enables humans to share knowledge, reason about the world, and pass on strategies for survival and innovation across generations. At the heart of this process is not just the ability to communicate but also the remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jan Philip Wahle

This paper introduces a large-scale multimodal and multilingual dataset that aims to facilitate research on grounding words to images in their contextual usage in language. The dataset consists of images selected to unambiguously illustrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Josiel Figueiredo , Chiraag Lala , Lucia Specia

As language models grow in popularity, it becomes increasingly important to clearly measure all possible markers of demographic identity in order to avoid perpetuating existing societal harms. Many datasets for measuring bias currently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Eric Michael Smith , Melissa Hall , Melanie Kambadur , Eleonora Presani , Adina Williams

Event extraction (EE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves identifying and extracting event information from unstructured text. Effective EE in real-world scenarios requires two key steps: selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sheng Liang , Hang Lv , Zhihao Wen , Yaxiong Wu , Yongyue Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu

Multiword expressions (MWEs) present groups of words in which the meaning of the whole is not derived from the meaning of its parts. The task of processing MWEs is crucial in many natural language processing (NLP) applications, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Damith Premasiri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Prior works formulate the extraction of event-specific arguments as a span extraction problem, where event arguments are explicit -- i.e. assumed to be contiguous spans of text in a document. In this study, we revisit this definition of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Omar Sharif , Joseph Gatto , Madhusudan Basak , Sarah M. Preum

The metaphor studies community has developed numerous valuable labelled corpora in various languages over the years. Many of these resources are not only unknown to the NLP community, but are also often not easily shared among the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Joanne Boisson , Arif Mehmood , Jose Camacho-Collados

Accurate processing of non-compositional language relies on generating good representations for such expressions. In this work, we study the representation of language non-compositionality by proposing a language model, PIER, that builds on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ziheng Zeng , Suma Bhat

Decoding EEG signals for imagined speech is a challenging task due to the high-dimensional nature of the data and low signal-to-noise ratio. In recent years, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have emerged as promising…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Soowon Kim , Young-Eun Lee , Seo-Hyun Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Analysis of Indian English (IE) pronunciation variabilities are useful in building systems for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis in the Indian context. Typically, these pronunciation variabilities have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Priyanshi Pal , Shelly Jain , Anil Vuppala , Chiranjeevi Yarra , Prasanta Ghosh

The tasks of idiom understanding and dialect understanding are both well-established benchmarks in natural language processing. In this paper, we propose combining them, and using regional idioms as a test of dialect understanding. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 David Beauchemin , Yan Tremblay , Mohamed Amine Youssef , Richard Khoury

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various natural language understanding tasks. With only a few demonstration examples, these LLMs can quickly adapt to target tasks without expensive gradient updates. Common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yue Yu , Jiaming Shen , Tianqi Liu , Zhen Qin , Jing Nathan Yan , Jialu Liu , Chao Zhang , Michael Bendersky

We present word2word, a publicly available dataset and an open-source Python package for cross-lingual word translations extracted from sentence-level parallel corpora. Our dataset provides top-k word translations in 3,564 (directed)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yo Joong Choe , Kyubyong Park , Dongwoo Kim

Multimodal information extraction (IE) tasks have attracted increasing attention because many studies have shown that multimodal information benefits text information extraction. However, existing multimodal IE datasets mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiang Liu , Bobo Li , Xinran Yang , Na Yang , Hao Fei , Mingyao Zhang , Fei Li , Donghong Ji

Translation systems, including foundation models capable of translation, can produce errors that result in gender mistranslation, and such errors can be especially harmful. To measure the extent of such potential harms when translating into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Kevin Robinson , Sneha Kudugunta , Romina Stella , Sunipa Dev , Jasmijn Bastings

Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain types of messages. A speaker's choice of construction is known to depend on multiple factors, including the choice of main verb -- a phenomenon known as…

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