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Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to condense large amounts of textual information into concise and coherent summaries. With the exponential growth of content and the need to extract key…

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Text classification tasks which aim at harvesting and/or organizing information from electronic health records are pivotal to support clinical and translational research. However these present specific challenges compared to other…

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Transformer architectures show significant promise for natural language processing. Given that a single pretrained model can be fine-tuned to perform well on many different tasks, these networks appear to extract generally useful linguistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andy Coenen , Emily Reif , Ann Yuan , Been Kim , Adam Pearce , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Recently, there has been growing interest in the ability of Transformer-based models to produce meaningful embeddings of text with several applications, such as text similarity. Despite significant progress in the field, the explanations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Itzik Malkiel , Dvir Ginzburg , Oren Barkan , Avi Caciularu , Jonathan Weill , Noam Koenigstein

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of complex documents and texts that require a deeper understanding of machine learning methods to be able to accurately classify texts in many applications. Many machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Kamran Kowsari , Kiana Jafari Meimandi , Mojtaba Heidarysafa , Sanjana Mendu , Laura E. Barnes , Donald E. Brown

Identifying critical research within the growing body of academic work is an intrinsic aspect of conducting quality research. Systematic review processes used in evidence-based medicine formalise this as a procedure that must be followed in…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-14 John Hawkins , David Tivey

The transformer-based pre-trained language model BERT has helped to improve state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Using the same architecture and parameters, we developed and evaluated a monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Wietse de Vries , Andreas van Cranenburgh , Arianna Bisazza , Tommaso Caselli , Gertjan van Noord , Malvina Nissim

In recent years, with the rapid development of information on the Internet, the number of complex texts and documents has increased exponentially, which requires a deeper understanding of deep learning methods in order to accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zhongwei Wan

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have been driven bypretrained language models like BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT. Thesemodels excel at understanding complex texts, but biomedical literature, withits domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 K. Sahit Reddy , N. Ragavenderan , Vasanth K. , Ganesh N. Naik , Vishalakshi Prabhu , Nagaraja G. S

Neural networks models for NLP are typically implemented without the explicit encoding of language rules and yet they are able to break one performance record after another. This has generated a lot of research interest in interpreting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mariya Toneva , Leila Wehbe

We consider language modelling (LM) as a multi-label structured prediction task by re-framing training from solely predicting a single ground-truth word to ranking a set of words which could continue a given context. To avoid annotating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Arvid Frydenlund , Gagandeep Singh , Frank Rudzicz

Transformer-based language models are now widely used in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This statement is especially true for English language, in which many pre-trained models utilizing transformer-based architecture have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Sławomir Dadas , Michał Perełkiewicz , Rafał Poświata

The rising prevalence of mental health disorders necessitates the development of robust, automated tools for early detection and monitoring. Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly transformer-based architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Khalid Hasan , Jamil Saquer , Mukulika Ghosh

Pre-trained and fine-tuned transformer models like BERT and T5 have improved the state of the art in ad-hoc retrieval and question-answering, but not as yet in high-recall information retrieval, where the objective is to retrieve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Nima Sadri , Gordon V. Cormack

Ranking models are the main components of information retrieval systems. Several approaches to ranking are based on traditional machine learning algorithms using a set of hand-crafted features. Recently, researchers have leveraged deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mohamed Trabelsi , Zhiyu Chen , Brian D. Davison , Jeff Heflin

A semantic equivalence assessment is defined as a task that assesses semantic equivalence in a sentence pair by binary judgment (i.e., paraphrase identification) or grading (i.e., semantic textual similarity measurement). It constitutes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuki Arase , Junichi Tsujii

Search engines operate under a strict time constraint as a fast response is paramount to user satisfaction. Thus, neural re-ranking models have a limited time-budget to re-rank documents. Given the same amount of time, a faster re-ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sebastian Hofstätter , Markus Zlabinger , Allan Hanbury

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) such as BERT have revolutionized the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Inspired by their proliferation, tremendous efforts have been devoted to Pretrained Graph Models (PGMs). Owing to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jun Xia , Yanqiao Zhu , Yuanqi Du , Stan Z. Li

Currently, the most widespread neural network architecture for training language models is the so called BERT which led to improvements in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In general, the larger the number of parameters in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jochen Zöllner , Konrad Sperfeld , Christoph Wick , Roger Labahn

Training deep neural networks from scratch on natural language processing (NLP) tasks requires significant amount of manually labeled text corpus and substantial time to converge, which usually cannot be satisfied by the customers. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yunzhe Tao , Saurabh Gupta , Satyapriya Krishna , Xiong Zhou , Orchid Majumder , Vineet Khare