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Speech recognition systems typically output text lacking punctuation. However, punctuation is crucial for written text comprehension. To tackle this problem, Punctuation Prediction models are developed. This paper describes a solution for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jakub Pokrywka

Punctuation is critical in understanding natural language text. Currently, most automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems do not generate punctuation, which affects the performance of downstream tasks, such as intent detection and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Qiushi Huang , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Xubo Liu , Bo Wu

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have witnessed rapid, significant improvements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Utilizing Deep Learning, researchers have taken advantage of repository comments in Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 William Aiken , Paul K. Mvula , Paula Branco , Guy-Vincent Jourdan , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Herna Viktor

We propose BERTScore, an automatic evaluation metric for text generation. Analogously to common metrics, BERTScore computes a similarity score for each token in the candidate sentence with each token in the reference sentence. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Tianyi Zhang , Varsha Kishore , Felix Wu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

Reflective thinking is a key competency in education, but assessing reflective writing remains a time-consuming and subjective task for education experts. While automated reflective analysis has been explored in several languages, Hungarian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zsolt Csibi , Mónika Sándor , Mónika Serfőző , Kinga Gyöngy , Kristian Fenech

We introduce SetBERT, a fine-tuned BERT-based model designed to enhance query embeddings for set operations and Boolean logic queries, such as Intersection (AND), Difference (NOT), and Union (OR). SetBERT significantly improves retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Quan Mai , Susan Gauch , Douglas Adams

Pre-trained contextualized embedding models such as BERT are a standard building block in many natural language processing systems. We demonstrate that the sentence-level representations produced by some off-the-shelf contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Xiliang Zhu , David Rossouw , Shayna Gardiner , Simon Corston-Oliver

Punctuation restoration enhances the readability of text and is critical for post-processing tasks in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially for low-resource languages like Bangla. In this study, we explore the application of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Md Obyedullahil Mamun , Md Adyelullahil Mamun , Arif Ahmad , Md. Imran Hossain Emu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems rely heavily on explicit punctuation cues to resolve semantic ambiguities in a source sentence. Inputting user-generated sentences, which are likely to contain missing or incorrect punctuation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole , Sourabh Deoghare , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Fine-tuned Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based sequence classification models have proven to be effective for detecting Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from transcripts of human speech. However, previous research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Aparna Balagopalan , Jekaterina Novikova

Fine-tuning a pretrained BERT model is the state of the art method for extractive/abstractive text summarization, in this paper we showcase how this fine-tuning method can be applied to the Arabic language to both construct the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Khalid N. Elmadani , Mukhtar Elgezouli , Anas Showk

Evaluating text comprehension in educational settings is critical for understanding student performance and improving curricular effectiveness. This study investigates the capability of state-of-the-art language models-RoBERTa Base,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Abdullah Khondoker , Enam Ahmed Taufik , Md Iftekhar Islam Tashik , S M Ishtiak mahmud , Antara Firoz Parsa

Pretrained contextualized language models such as BERT have achieved impressive results on various natural language processing benchmarks. Benefiting from multiple pretraining tasks and large scale training corpora, pretrained models can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhiyu Chen , Mohamed Trabelsi , Jeff Heflin , Yinan Xu , Brian D. Davison

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have exhibited remarkable performances in many tasks in natural language understanding (NLU). The tokens in the models are usually fine-grained in the sense that for languages like English they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xinsong Zhang , Pengshuai Li , Hang Li

Automatic short answer grading is an important research direction in the exploration of how to use artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to improve education. Current state-of-the-art approaches use neural language models to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mengxue Zhang , Sami Baral , Neil Heffernan , Andrew Lan

Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often results in improved performance on downstream tasks. However, at some point further model increases become harder due to GPU/TPU memory limitations and longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhenzhong Lan , Mingda Chen , Sebastian Goodman , Kevin Gimpel , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Large pre-trained language models help to achieve state of the art on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, nevertheless, they still suffer from forgetting when incrementally learning a sequence of tasks. To alleviate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingxu Tao , Yansong Feng , Dongyan Zhao

Large language models can now directly generate answers to many factual questions without referencing external sources. Unfortunately, relatively little attention has been paid to methods for evaluating the quality and correctness of these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Negar Arabzadeh , Amin Bigdeli , Charles L. A. Clarke

This paper studies the performances of BERT combined with tree structure in short sentence ranking task. In retrieval-based question answering system, we retrieve the most similar question of the query question by ranking all the questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

The study of the applicability of the BERTScore metric was conducted to translation quality assessment at the sentence level for English -> Russian direction. Experiments were performed with a pre-trained Multilingual BERT as well as with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 A. A. Vetrov , E. A. Gorn