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Biomedical literature is a rapidly expanding field of science and technology. Classification of biomedical texts is an essential part of biomedicine research, especially in the field of biology. This work proposes the fine-tuned DistilBERT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ziqing Guo

Identification of hallucination spans in black-box language model generated text is essential for applications in the real world. A recent attempt at this direction is SemEval-2025 Task 3, Mu-SHROOM-a Multilingual Shared Task on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Saketh Reddy Vemula , Parameswari Krishnamurthy

The spread of toxic content online is an important problem that has adverse effects on user experience online and in our society at large. Motivated by the importance and impact of the problem, research focuses on developing solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xinlei He , Savvas Zannettou , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Extracting semantic information on measurements and counts is an important topic in terms of analyzing scientific discourses. The 8th task of SemEval-2021: Counts and Measurements (MeasEval) aimed to boost research in this direction by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Andrei-Marius Avram , George-Eduard Zaharia , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

Text classification plays an important role in many practical applications. In the real world, there are extremely small datasets. Most existing methods adopt pre-trained neural network models to handle this kind of dataset. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Jiajun Tong , Zhixiao Wang , Xiaobin Rui

Given the dynamic nature of toxic language use, automated methods for detecting toxic spans are likely to encounter distributional shift. To explore this phenomenon, we evaluate three approaches for detecting toxic spans under cross-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Stefan F. Schouten , Baran Barbarestani , Wondimagegnhue Tufa , Piek Vossen , Ilia Markov

Reading is a complex process which requires proper understanding of texts in order to create coherent mental representations. However, comprehension problems may arise due to hard-to-understand sections, which can prove troublesome for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 George-Eduard Zaharia , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

Detecting spans of hallucination in LLM-generated answers is crucial for improving factual consistency. This paper presents a span-level hallucination detection framework for the SemEval-2025 Shared Task, focusing on English and Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Passant Elchafei , Mervet Abu-Elkheir

In this paper we describe our work towards building a generic framework for both multi-modal embedding and multi-label binary classification tasks, while participating in task 5 (Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification) of SemEval 2022…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ahmed Mahran , Carlo Alessandro Borella , Konstantinos Perifanos

Toxicity detection in multimodal text-image content faces growing challenges, especially with multimodal implicit toxicity, where each modality appears benign on its own but conveys hazard when combined. Multimodal implicit toxicity appears…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shiyao Cui , Qinglin Zhang , Xuan Ouyang , Renmiao Chen , Zhexin Zhang , Yida Lu , Hongning Wang , Han Qiu , Minlie Huang

Memes are one of the most popular types of content used in an online disinformation campaign. They are primarily effective on social media platforms since they can easily reach many users. Memes in a disinformation campaign achieve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shreenaga Chikoti , Shrey Mehta , Ashutosh Modi

PCL detection task is aimed at identifying and categorizing language that is patronizing or condescending towards vulnerable communities in the general media.Compared to other NLP tasks of paragraph classification, the negative language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yong Deng , Chenxiao Dou , Liangyu Chen , Deqiang Miao , Xianghui Sun , Baochang Ma , Xiangang Li

Existing Chinese toxic content detection methods mainly target sentence-level classification but often fail to provide readable and contiguous toxic evidence spans. We propose \textbf{ToxiTrace}, an explainability-oriented method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Boyang Li , Hongzhe Shou , Yuanyuan Liang , Jingbin Zhang , Fang Zhou

In this paper, we investigate the effect of addressing difficult samples from a given text dataset on the downstream text classification task. We define difficult samples as being non-obvious cases for text classification by analysing them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shashank Mujumdar , Stuti Mehta , Hima Patel , Suman Mitra

This paper presents a deep learning-based pipeline for categorizing Bengali toxic comments, in which at first a binary classification model is used to determine whether a comment is toxic or not, and then a multi-label classifier is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tanveer Ahmed Belal , G. M. Shahariar , Md. Hasanul Kabir

User posts whose perceived toxicity depends on the conversational context are rare in current toxicity detection datasets. Hence, toxicity detectors trained on existing datasets will also tend to disregard context, making the detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Alexandros Xenos , John Pavlopoulos , Ion Androutsopoulos , Lucas Dixon , Jeffrey Sorensen , Leo Laugier

Segmenting text into semantically coherent segments is an important task with applications in information retrieval and text summarization. Developing accurate topical segmentation requires the availability of training data with ground…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Saurav Manchanda , George Karypis

A novel solution to span detection and classification is presented in which a BART EncoderDecoder model is used to transform textual input into a version with XML-like marked up spans. This markup is subsequently translated to an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Cees Roele

In this paper, we present our approach and empirical observations for Cause-Effect Signal Span Detection -- Subtask 2 of Shared task 3~\cite{tan-etal-2022-event} at CASE 2022. The shared task aims to extract the cause, effect, and signal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xingran Chen , Ge Zhang , Adam Nik , Mingyu Li , Jie Fu

Toxicity identification in online multimodal environments remains a challenging task due to the complexity of contextual connections across modalities (e.g., textual and visual). In this paper, we propose a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rahul Garg , Trilok Padhi , Hemang Jain , Ugur Kursuncu , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru