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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Divya Gopinath , Monica Agrawal , Luke Murray , Steven Horng , David Karger , David Sontag

This work improves monolingual sentence alignment for text simplification, specifically for text in standard and simple Wikipedia. We introduce a convolutional neural network structure to model similarity between two sentences. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Yonghui Huang , Yunhui Li , Yi Luan

Current evaluation of German automatic text simplification (ATS) relies on general-purpose metrics such as SARI, BLEU, and BERTScore, which insufficiently capture simplification quality in terms of simplicity, meaning preservation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maria Korobeynikova , Alessia Battisti , Lukas Fischer , Yingqiang Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide accurate word definitions and explanations for any context. However, the scope of the definition changes for different target groups, like children or language learners. This is especially relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Lukas Ellinger , Miriam Anschütz , Georg Groh

Sentence simplification aims to simplify the content and structure of complex sentences, and thus make them easier to interpret for human readers, and easier to process for downstream NLP applications. Recent advances in neural machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Tu Vu , Baotian Hu , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Through the development of neural machine translation, the quality of machine translation systems has been improved significantly. By exploiting advancements in deep learning, systems are now able to better approximate the complex mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jan Niehues , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thanh-Le Ha , Matthias Sperber , Alex Waibel

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve deep neural networks in many research fields, such as computer vision. However, less work has been done in the context of text, partially due to its discrete nature and the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Ping Yu , Ruiyi Zhang , Yang Zhao , Yizhe Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in vision-language tasks, but their application in the medical field remains underexplored, particularly for integrating structured time series data with unstructured clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuai Niu , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Liang Bai , Zhihua Wang , Wei Bi , Yida Xu , Guo Li , Xian Yang

Automated clinical text anonymization has the potential to unlock the widespread sharing of textual health data for secondary usage while assuring patient privacy and safety. Despite the proposal of many complex and theoretically successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 David Pissarra , Isabel Curioso , João Alveira , Duarte Pereira , Bruno Ribeiro , Tomás Souper , Vasco Gomes , André V. Carreiro , Vitor Rolla

Sentences that present a complex syntax act as a major stumbling block for downstream Natural Language Processing applications whose predictive quality deteriorates with sentence length and complexity. The task of Text Simplification (TS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

An important task in NLP applications such as sentence simplification is the ability to take a long, complex sentence and split it into shorter sentences, rephrasing as necessary. We introduce a novel dataset and a new model for this `split…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Joongwon Kim , Mounica Maddela , Reno Kriz , Wei Xu , Chris Callison-Burch

With advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), a major use case that has emerged is querying databases in plain English, translating user questions into executable database queries, which has improved significantly. However, real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Pratyush Kumar , Kuber Vijaykumar Bellad , Bharat Vadlamudi , Aman Chadha

This study investigates the automation of meta-analysis in scientific documents using large language models (LLMs). Meta-analysis is a robust statistical method that synthesizes the findings of multiple studies support articles to provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jawad Ibn Ahad , Rafeed Mohammad Sultan , Abraham Kaikobad , Fuad Rahman , Mohammad Ruhul Amin , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Research on language technology for the development of medical applications is currently a hot topic in Natural Language Understanding and Generation. Thus, a number of large language models (LLMs) have recently been adapted to the medical…

Recent advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing, particularly the development of large-scale language models that are pretrained on vast amounts of knowledge, are creating novel opportunities within the realm of Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Anisa Rula , Jennifer D'Souza

Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant interest in their potential to support human experts across a range of domains, including public health. In this work we present automated evaluations of LLMs for public…

For large-scale IT corpora with hundreds of classes organized in a hierarchy, the task of accurate classification of classes at the higher level in the hierarchies is crucial to avoid errors propagating to the lower levels. In the business…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yasmen Wahba , Nazim Madhavji , John Steinbacher

This paper presents a pipeline for mitigating gender bias in large language models (LLMs) used in medical literature by neutralizing gendered occupational pronouns. A dataset of 379,000 PubMed abstracts from 1965-1980 was processed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Elizabeth Schaefer , Kirk Roberts

This paper addresses the challenge of accurately translating technical terms, which are crucial for clear communication in specialized fields. We introduce the Parenthetical Terminology Translation (PTT) task, designed to mitigate potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jiyoon Myung , Jihyeon Park , Jungki Son , Kyungro Lee , Joohyung Han

Text simplification is a common task where the text is adapted to make it easier to understand. Similarly, text elaboration can make a passage more sophisticated, offering a method to control the complexity of reading comprehension tests.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Asma Farajidizaji , Vatsal Raina , Mark Gales