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Text data augmentation is a widely used strategy for mitigating data sparsity in natural language processing (NLP), particularly in low-resource settings where limited samples hinder effective semantic modeling. While augmentation can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Payal Bhattad , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao , Anju Gupta

Automatic generation of paraphrases from a given sentence is an important yet challenging task in natural language processing (NLP), and plays a key role in a number of applications such as question answering, search, and dialogue. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Zichao Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Hang Li

In this paper, we propose a novel neural approach for paraphrase generation. Conventional para- phrase generation methods either leverage hand-written rules and thesauri-based alignments, or use statistical machine learning principles. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Aaditya Prakash , Sadid A. Hasan , Kathy Lee , Vivek Datla , Ashequl Qadir , Joey Liu , Oladimeji Farri

In this paper, we approach the problem of semantic search by framing the search task as paraphrase span detection, i.e. given a segment of text as a query phrase, the task is to identify its paraphrase in a given document, the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jenna Kanerva , Hanna Kitti , Li-Hsin Chang , Teemu Vahtola , Mathias Creutz , Filip Ginter

Paraphrase generation is an important task in natural language processing. Previous works focus on sentence-level paraphrase generation, while ignoring document-level paraphrase generation, which is a more challenging and valuable task. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zhe Lin , Yitao Cai , Xiaojun Wan

There are two approaches for pairwise sentence scoring: Cross-encoders, which perform full-attention over the input pair, and Bi-encoders, which map each input independently to a dense vector space. While cross-encoders often achieve higher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Nandan Thakur , Nils Reimers , Johannes Daxenberger , Iryna Gurevych

Paraphrase generation is a longstanding NLP task that has diverse applications for downstream NLP tasks. However, the effectiveness of existing efforts predominantly relies on large amounts of golden labeled data. Though unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Kaize Ding , Dingcheng Li , Alexander Hanbo Li , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo , Yang Liu , Huan Liu

Keyphrase generation is the task of automatically predicting keyphrases given a piece of long text. Despite its recent flourishing, keyphrase generation on non-English languages haven't been vastly investigated. In this paper, we call…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yifan Gao , Qingyu Yin , Zheng Li , Rui Meng , Tong Zhao , Bing Yin , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

This paper describes our approach to hierarchical multi-label detection of persuasion techniques in meme texts. Our model, developed as a part of the recent SemEval task, is based on fine-tuning individual language models (BERT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Kota Shamanth Ramanath Nayak , Leila Kosseim

Berkeley FrameNet is a lexico-semantic resource for English based on the theory of frame semantics. It has been exploited in a range of natural language processing applications and has inspired the development of framenets for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Normunds Gruzitis , Dana Dannélls

Despite recent progress of pre-trained language models on generating fluent text, existing methods still suffer from incoherence problems in long-form text generation tasks that require proper content control and planning to form a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Lifu Huang

Paraphrasing is expressing the meaning of an input sentence in different wording while maintaining fluency (i.e., grammatical and syntactical correctness). Most existing work on paraphrasing use supervised models that are limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-08 A. B. Siddique , Samet Oymak , Vagelis Hristidis

Large language models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to subtle changes in prompt phrasing, posing challenges for reliable auditing. Prior methods often apply unconstrained prompt paraphrasing, which risk missing linguistic and demographic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Cléa Chataigner , Rebecca Ma , Prakhar Ganesh , Yuhao Chen , Afaf Taïk , Elliot Creager , Golnoosh Farnadi

Paraphrasing is rooted in semantics. We show the effectiveness of transformers (Vaswani et al. 2017) for paraphrase generation and further improvements by incorporating PropBank labels via a multi-encoder. Evaluating on MSCOCO and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Su Wang , Rahul Gupta , Nancy Chang , Jason Baldridge

Generating paraphrases, that is, different variations of a sentence conveying the same meaning, is an important yet challenging task in NLP. Automatically generating paraphrases has its utility in many NLP tasks like question answering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Milan Aggarwal , Nupur Kumari , Ayush Bansal , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Newly-introduced deep learning architectures, namely BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa and ALBERT, have been proved to be robust on several NLP tasks. However, the datasets trained on these architectures are fixed in terms of size and generalizability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Hadi Abdi Ghadivel

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

Annotation projection is an important area in NLP that can greatly contribute to creating language resources for low-resource languages. Word alignment plays a key role in this setting. However, most of the existing word alignment methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ehsaneddin Asgari , Masoud Jalili Sabet , Philipp Dufter , Christopher Ringlstetter , Hinrich Schütze

The article is focused on automatic development and ranking of a large corpus for Russian paraphrase generation which proves to be the first corpus of such type in Russian computational linguistics. Existing manually annotated paraphrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vadim Gudkov , Olga Mitrofanova , Elizaveta Filippskikh

Paraphrase generation is a fundamental and long-standing task in natural language processing. In this paper, we concentrate on two contributions to the task: (1) we propose Retrieval Augmented Prompt Tuning (RAPT) as a parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Yong Zhuang , Shuyi Wang