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Contextualized representations give significantly improved results for a wide range of NLP tasks. Much work has been dedicated to analyzing the features captured by representative models such as BERT. Existing work finds that syntactic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yile Wang , Leyang Cui , Yue Zhang

Despite the great success in Natural Language Processing (NLP) area, large pre-trained language models like BERT are not well-suited for resource-constrained or real-time applications owing to the large number of parameters and slow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Keli Xie , Siyuan Lu , Meiqi Wang , Zhongfeng Wang

One of the key factors in language productivity and human cognition is the ability of systematic compositionality, which refers to understanding composed unseen examples of seen primitives. However, recent evidence reveals that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv

Recent innovations in architecture, pre-training, and fine-tuning have led to the remarkable in-context learning and reasoning abilities of large auto-regressive language models such as LLaMA and DeepSeek. In contrast, encoders like BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lola Le Breton , Quentin Fournier , Mariam El Mezouar , John X. Morris , Sarath Chandar

This study investigates the internal mechanisms of BERT, a transformer-based large language model, with a focus on its ability to cluster narrative content and authorial style across its layers. Using a dataset of narratives developed via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Awritrojit Banerjee , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

Large, self-supervised transformer-based language representation models have recently received significant amounts of attention, and have produced state-of-the-art results across a variety of tasks simply by scaling up pre-training on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexandre Matton , Luke de Oliveira

In this paper, we present a study of the recent advancements which have helped bring Transfer Learning to NLP through the use of semi-supervised training. We discuss cutting-edge methods and architectures such as BERT, GPT, ELMo, ULMFit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Aditya Malte , Pratik Ratadiya

Transformer-based pretrained models like BERT, GPT-2 and T5 have been finetuned for a large number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, and have been shown to be very effective. However, while finetuning, what changes across layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pavan Kalyan Reddy Neerudu , Subba Reddy Oota , Mounika Marreddy , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Manish Gupta

Fine-tuning a pre-trained model, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), has been proven to be an effective method for solving many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, due to the large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Taha ValizadehAslani , Hualou Liang

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have been driven bypretrained language models like BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT. Thesemodels excel at understanding complex texts, but biomedical literature, withits domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 K. Sahit Reddy , N. Ragavenderan , Vasanth K. , Ganesh N. Naik , Vishalakshi Prabhu , Nagaraja G. S

Developing high-performance entity normalization algorithms that can alleviate the term variation problem is of great interest to the biomedical community. Although deep learning-based methods have been successfully applied to biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Zongcheng Ji , Qiang Wei , Hua Xu

In this work, we represent Lex-BERT, which incorporates the lexicon information into Chinese BERT for named entity recognition (NER) tasks in a natural manner. Instead of using word embeddings and a newly designed transformer layer as in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Wei Zhu , Daniel Cheung

Currently, the most widespread neural network architecture for training language models is the so called BERT which led to improvements in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In general, the larger the number of parameters in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jochen Zöllner , Konrad Sperfeld , Christoph Wick , Roger Labahn

While humans process language incrementally, the best language encoders currently used in NLP do not. Both bidirectional LSTMs and Transformers assume that the sequence that is to be encoded is available in full, to be processed either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Brielen Madureira , David Schlangen

Language-guided robots performing home and office tasks must navigate in and interact with the world. Grounding language instructions against visual observations and actions to take in an environment is an open challenge. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Alessandro Suglia , Qiaozi Gao , Jesse Thomason , Govind Thattai , Gaurav Sukhatme

Pre-trained language models like BERT have achieved great success in a wide variety of NLP tasks, while the superior performance comes with high demand in computational resources, which hinders the application in low-latency IR systems. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Wenhao Lu , Jian Jiao , Ruofei Zhang

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) reach state-of-the-art results in a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks. However, understanding of their internal functioning is still insufficient and unsatisfactory.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Betty van Aken , Benjamin Winter , Alexander Löser , Felix A. Gers

We introduce HUBERT which combines the structured-representational power of Tensor-Product Representations (TPRs) and BERT, a pre-trained bidirectional Transformer language model. We show that there is shared structure between different NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mehrad Moradshahi , Hamid Palangi , Monica S. Lam , Paul Smolensky , Jianfeng Gao

In multilingual healthcare applications, the availability of domain-specific natural language processing(NLP) tools is limited, especially for low-resource languages. Although multilingual bidirectional encoder representations from…

There is a huge performance gap between formal and informal language understanding tasks. The recent pre-trained models that improved the performance of formal language understanding tasks did not achieve a comparable result on informal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Jing Gu , Zhou Yu