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Beginning with McCarthy's Advice Taker (1959), AI has pursued the goal of providing a system with explicit, general knowledge and having the system reason over that knowledge. However, expressing the knowledge in a formal (logical or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Peter Clark , Oyvind Tafjord , Kyle Richardson

BERT, as one of the pretrianed language models, attracts the most attention in recent years for creating new benchmarks across GLUE tasks via fine-tuning. One pressing issue is to open up the blackbox and explain the decision makings of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zhengxuan Wu , Desmond C. Ong

Attention is a key component of Transformers, which have recently achieved considerable success in natural language processing. Hence, attention is being extensively studied to investigate various linguistic capabilities of Transformers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Goro Kobayashi , Tatsuki Kuribayashi , Sho Yokoi , Kentaro Inui

Question Answering (QA) is a task in natural language processing that has seen considerable growth after the advent of transformers. There has been a surge in QA datasets that have been proposed to challenge natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Kate Pearce , Tiffany Zhan , Aneesh Komanduri , Justin Zhan

Coherence is an important aspect of text quality and is crucial for ensuring its readability. It is essential desirable for outputs from text generation systems like summarization, question answering, machine translation, question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Tushar Abhishek , Daksh Rawat , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

We present iBERT (interpretable-BERT), an encoder to produce inherently interpretable and controllable embeddings - designed to modularize and expose the discriminative cues present in language, such as semantic or stylistic structure. Each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Vishal Anand , Milad Alshomary , Kathleen McKeown

Over the recent years, large pretrained language models (LM) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, while pretraining on general language has been shown to work very well for common language, it has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nicolas Webersinke , Mathias Kraus , Julia Anna Bingler , Markus Leippold

Learning a high-dimensional dense representation for vocabulary terms, also known as a word embedding, has recently attracted much attention in natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. The embedding vectors are typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

Transformer-based language models trained on large text corpora have enjoyed immense popularity in the natural language processing community and are commonly used as a starting point for downstream tasks. While these models are undeniably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Vinitra Swamy , Angelika Romanou , Martin Jaggi

In this paper, we explore the usage of Word Embedding semantic resources for Information Retrieval (IR) task. This embedding, produced by a shallow neural network, have been shown to catch semantic similarities between words (Mikolov et…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jibril Frej , Jean-Pierre Chevallet , Didier Schwab

The main approaches to sentiment analysis are rule-based methods and ma-chine learning, in particular, deep neural network models with the Trans-former architecture, including BERT. The performance of neural network models in the tasks of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Elena Razova , Sergey Vychegzhanin , Evgeny Kotelnikov

In order to adopt deep learning for information retrieval, models are needed that can capture all relevant information required to assess the relevance of a document to a given user query. While previous works have successfully captured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Kai Hui , Andrew Yates , Klaus Berberich , Gerard de Melo

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to meet user information needs, but their effectiveness in dealing with user queries that contain various types of ambiguity remains unknown, ultimately risking user trust and satisfaction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tong Zhang , Peixin Qin , Yang Deng , Chen Huang , Wenqiang Lei , Junhong Liu , Dingnan Jin , Hongru Liang , Tat-Seng Chua

We present two deep learning approaches to narrative text understanding for character relationship modelling. The temporal evolution of these relations is described by dynamic word embeddings, that are designed to learn semantic changes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Vani K , Simone Mellace , Alessandro Antonucci

When pre-trained on large unsupervised textual corpora, language models are able to store and retrieve factual knowledge to some extent, making it possible to use them directly for zero-shot cloze-style question answering. However, storing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Fabio Petroni , Patrick Lewis , Aleksandra Piktus , Tim Rocktäschel , Yuxiang Wu , Alexander H. Miller , Sebastian Riedel

Neural information retrieval (IR) has greatly advanced search and other knowledge-intensive language tasks. While many neural IR methods encode queries and documents into single-vector representations, late interaction models produce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Keshav Santhanam , Omar Khattab , Jon Saad-Falcon , Christopher Potts , Matei Zaharia

This paper presents a practical approach to fine-grained information extraction. Through plenty of experiences of authors in practically applying information extraction to business process automation, there can be found a couple of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Minh-Tien Nguyen , Viet-Anh Phan , Le Thai Linh , Nguyen Hong Son , Le Tien Dung , Miku Hirano , Hajime Hotta

Transformers are arguably the main workhorse in recent Natural Language Processing research. By definition a Transformer is invariant with respect to reordering of the input. However, language is inherently sequential and word order is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Philipp Dufter , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze

People are regularly confronted with potentially deceptive statements (e.g., fake news, misleading product reviews, or lies about activities). Only few works on automated text-based deception detection have exploited the potential of deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Loukas Ilias , Felix Soldner , Bennett Kleinberg

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a transformative leap with the advent of transformer-based architectures, which have significantly enhanced the ability of machines to understand and generate human-like text. This paper…

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