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As the need for large-scale data processing grows, distributed programming frameworks like PySpark have become increasingly popular. However, the task of converting traditional, sequential code to distributed code remains a significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Arun Sanjel , Bikram Khanal , Greg Speegle , Pablo Rivas

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Simultaneously modeling source code and natural language has many exciting applications in automated software development and understanding. Pursuant to achieving such technology, we introduce PyMT5, the Python method text-to-text transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Colin B. Clement , Dawn Drain , Jonathan Timcheck , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Segmenting text into sentences plays an early and crucial role in many NLP systems. This is commonly achieved by using rule-based or statistical methods relying on lexical features such as punctuation. Although some recent works no longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Markus Frohmann , Igor Sterner , Ivan Vulić , Benjamin Minixhofer , Markus Schedl

Popular approaches to natural language processing create word embeddings based on textual co-occurrence patterns, but often ignore embodied, sensory aspects of language. Here, we introduce the Python package comp-syn, which provides…

Enabling robots to accurately interpret and execute spoken language instructions is essential for effective human-robot collaboration. Traditional methods rely on speech recognition to transcribe speech into text, often discarding crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 David Sasu , Kweku Andoh Yamoah , Benedict Quartey , Natalie Schluter

The Parallel Meaning Bank (PMB) serves as a corpus for semantic processing with a focus on semantic parsing and text generation. Currently, we witness an excellent performance of neural parsers and generators on the PMB. This might suggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xiao Zhang , Chunliu Wang , Rik van Noord , Johan Bos

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

The Split and Rephrase (SPRP) task, which consists in splitting complex sentences into a sequence of shorter grammatical sentences, while preserving the original meaning, can facilitate the processing of complex texts for humans and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 David Ponce , Thierry Etchegoyhen , Jesús Calleja Pérez , Harritxu Gete

In this work we tackle the problem of sentence boundary detection applied to French as a binary classification task ("sentence boundary" or "not sentence boundary"). We combine convolutional neural networks with subword-level information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

Traditional natural language parsers are based on rewrite rule systems developed in an arduous, time-consuming manner by grammarians. A majority of the grammarian's efforts are devoted to the disambiguation process, first hypothesizing…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 David M. Magerman

We present a novel approach to formalise and solve search-based problems using large language models, which significantly improves upon previous state-of-the-art results. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach on the logic puzzles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pascal Kesseli , Peter O'Hearn , Ricardo Silveira Cabral

In this paper, we present the Semantic Boundary Conditioned Backbone (SBCB) framework, a simple yet effective training framework that is model-agnostic and boosts segmentation performance, especially around the boundaries. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Haruya Ishikawa , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Word segmentation is a low-level NLP task that is non-trivial for a considerable number of languages. In this paper, we present a sequence tagging framework and apply it to word segmentation for a wide range of languages with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yan Shao , Christian Hardmeier , Joakim Nivre

Text style transfer aims to controllably generate text with targeted stylistic changes while maintaining core meaning from the source sentence constant. Many of the existing style transfer benchmarks primarily focus on individual high-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yiwei Lyu , Paul Pu Liang , Hai Pham , Eduard Hovy , Barnabás Póczos , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to find the exact sense of an ambiguous word in a particular context. Traditional supervised methods rarely take into consideration the lexical resources like WordNet, which are widely utilized in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Luyao Huang , Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

For real-life applications, it is crucial that end-to-end spoken language translation models perform well on continuous audio, without relying on human-supplied segmentation. For online spoken language translation, where models need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Chantal Amrhein , Barry Haddow

The project presented in this article aims to formalize criteria and procedures in order to extract semantic information from parsed dictionary glosses. The actual purpose of the project is the generation of a semantic network (nearly an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Daniel Christen

We support scientific writers in determining whether a written sentence is scientific, to which section it belongs, and suggest paraphrasings to improve the sentence. Firstly, we propose a regression model trained on a corpus of scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Justin Mücke , Daria Waldow , Luise Metzger , Philipp Schauz , Marcel Hoffman , Nicolas Lell , Ansgar Scherp

The paper presents an overview of the Spoken Language Translator (SLT) system's hybrid language-processing architecture, focussing on the way in which rule-based and statistical methods are combined to achieve robust and efficient…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Manny Rayner , David Carter