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Intent classification has been widely researched on English data with deep learning approaches that are based on neural networks and word embeddings. The challenge for Chinese intent classification stems from the fact that, unlike English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ruixi Lin , Charles Costello , Charles Jankowski

Idioms, are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Due to the properties of non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, Chinese Idioms are hard to be understood by children and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jipeng Qiang , Yang Li , Chaowei Zhang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu , Xindong Wu

The primary objective of Chinese grammatical error correction (CGEC) is to detect and correct errors in Chinese sentences. Recent research shows that large language models (LLMs) have been applied to CGEC with significant results. For LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Baoxin Wang , Yumeng Luo , Yixuan Wang , Dayong Wu , Wanxiang Che , Shijin Wang

Text Simplification (TS) aims to reduce the linguistic complexity of content to make it easier to understand. Research in TS has been of keen interest, especially as approaches to TS have shifted from manual, hand-crafted rules to automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Punardeep Sikka , Vijay Mago

Lexical simplification (LS) is the task of automatically replacing complex words for easier ones making texts more accessible to various target populations (e.g. individuals with low literacy, individuals with learning disabilities, second…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Short text matching often faces the challenges that there are great word mismatch and expression diversity between the two texts, which would be further aggravated in languages like Chinese where there is no natural space to segment words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuxuan Lai , Yansong Feng , Xiaohan Yu , Zheng Wang , Kun Xu , Dongyan Zhao

The computational study of lexical semantic change (LSC) has taken off in the past few years and we are seeing increasing interest in the field, from both computational sciences and linguistics. Most of the research so far has focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Simon Hengchen , Nina Tahmasebi , Dominik Schlechtweg , Haim Dubossarsky

Chinese short text matching is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Existing approaches usually take Chinese characters or words as input tokens. They have two limitations: 1) Some Chinese words are polysemous, and semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Boer Lyu , Lu Chen , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

Recently, the development and progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) have amazed the entire Artificial Intelligence community. Benefiting from their emergent abilities, LLMs have attracted more and more researchers to study their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yinghui Li , Haojing Huang , Shirong Ma , Yong Jiang , Yangning Li , Feng Zhou , Hai-Tao Zheng , Qingyu Zhou

The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modelling has been applied to identify complex words in texts and substitute them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Matthew Shardlow

Recently, much Chinese text error correction work has focused on Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) and Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED). In contrast, little attention has been paid to the complicated problem of Chinese Semantic Error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Bo Sun , Baoxin Wang , Yixuan Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dayong Wu , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu

Chinese spelling check is a task to detect and correct spelling mistakes in Chinese text. Existing research aims to enhance the text representation and use multi-source information to improve the detection and correction capabilities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Nankai Lin , Hongyan Wu , Sihui Fu , Shengyi Jiang , Aimin Yang

Automatic abstractive text summarization is an important and challenging research topic of natural language processing. Among many widely used languages, the Chinese language has a special property that a Chinese character contains rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Chieh-Teng Chang , Chi-Chia Huang , Chih-Yuan Yang , Jane Yung-Jen Hsu

Existing Chinese text error detection mainly focuses on spelling and simple grammatical errors. These errors have been studied extensively and are relatively simple for humans. On the contrary, Chinese semantic errors are understudied and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Bo Sun , Baoxin Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dayong Wu , Zhigang Chen , Ting Liu

We present an iterative procedure to build a Chinese language model (LM). We segment Chinese text into words based on a word-based Chinese language model. However, the construction of a Chinese LM itself requires word boundaries. To get out…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Xiaoqiang Luo , Salim Roukos

Chinese word segmentation has entered the deep learning era which greatly reduces the hassle of feature engineering. Recently, some researchers attempted to treat it as character-level translation, which further simplified model designing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Pinzhen Chen , Kenneth Heafield

Text is by far the most ubiquitous source of knowledge and information and should be made easily accessible to as many people as possible; however, texts often contain complex words that hinder reading comprehension and accessibility.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Kim Cheng Sheang , Horacio Saggion

Previous work has predominantly focused on monolingual English semantic parsing. We, instead, explore the feasibility of Chinese semantic parsing in the absence of labeled data for Chinese meaning representations. We describe the pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Chunliu Wang , Xiao Zhang , Johan Bos

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims to generate a summary for the source text in a different target language. Currently, instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) excel at various English tasks. However, unlike languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhecheng Li , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Naifan Cheung , Nanyun Peng , Kai-wei Chang

Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) is a critical task in Natural Language Processing, addressing the growing demand for automated writing assistance in both second-language (L2) and native (L1) Chinese writing. While L2 learners…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mengyang Qiu , Qingyu Gao , Linxuan Yang , Yang Gu , Tran Minh Nguyen , Zihao Huang , Jungyeul Park