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Pragmatics and non-literal language understanding are essential to human communication, and present a long-standing challenge for artificial language models. We perform a fine-grained comparison of language models and humans on seven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jennifer Hu , Sammy Floyd , Olessia Jouravlev , Evelina Fedorenko , Edward Gibson

The emergence and global adoption of social media has rendered possible the real-time estimation of population-scale sentiment, bearing profound implications for our understanding of human behavior. Given the growing assortment of sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Andrew J. Reagan , Brian Tivnan , Jake Ryland Williams , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

In this paper we investigate the linguistic knowledge learned by a Neural Language Model (NLM) before and after a fine-tuning process and how this knowledge affects its predictions during several classification problems. We use a wide set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Alessio Miaschi , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi

In this paper, we study the response of large models from the BERT family to incoherent inputs that should confuse any model that claims to understand natural language. We define simple heuristics to construct such examples. Our experiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ashim Gupta , Giorgi Kvernadze , Vivek Srikumar

When humans read a text, their eye movements are influenced by the structural complexity of the input sentences. This cognitive phenomenon holds across languages and recent studies indicate that multilingual language models utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Charlotte Pouw , Nora Hollenstein , Lisa Beinborn

Should LLMs generate language that makes them seem human? Human-like language might improve user experience, but might also lead to deception, overreliance, and stereotyping. Assessing these potential impacts requires a systematic way to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Myra Cheng , Sunny Yu , Dan Jurafsky

Artificial intelligence systems increasingly generate text intended to provide social and emotional support. Understanding how users perceive empathic qualities in such content is therefore critical. We examined differences in perceived…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jonas Festor , Ivo Snels , Bennett Kleinberg

Modern Artificial Intelligence applications show great potential for language-related tasks that rely on next-word prediction. The current generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been linked to claims about human-like linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Evelina Leivada , Gary Marcus , Fritz Günther , Elliot Murphy

Sentiment analysis is a very important natural language processing activity in which one identifies the polarity of a text, whether it conveys positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. Along with the growth of social media and the Internet,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Negin Mahmoudi , Mohammad Jalili Torkamani , Kiana Kiashemshaki

This study is main goal is to provide a comparative comparison of libraries using machine learning methods. Experts in natural language processing (NLP) are becoming more and more interested in sentiment analysis (SA) of text changes. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Wendy Ccoya , Edson Pinto

Understanding context-dependent variation in word meanings is a key aspect of human language comprehension supported by the lexicon. Lexicographic resources (e.g., WordNet) capture only some of this context-dependent variation; for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sathvik Nair , Mahesh Srinivasan , Stephan Meylan

In lexicon-based classification, documents are assigned labels by comparing the number of words that appear from two opposed lexicons, such as positive and negative sentiment. Creating such words lists is often easier than labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Jacob Eisenstein

With the internet's evolution, consumers increasingly rely on online reviews for service or product choices, necessitating that businesses analyze extensive customer feedback to enhance their offerings. While machine learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yejian Zhang , Shingo Takada

Expressing in language is subjective. Everyone has a different style of reading and writing, apparently it all boil downs to the way their mind understands things (in a specific format). Language style transfer is a way to preserve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ayush Singh , Ritu Palod

Evaluation metrics are a key ingredient for progress of text generation systems. In recent years, several BERT-based evaluation metrics have been proposed (including BERTScore, MoverScore, BLEURT, etc.) which correlate much better with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Marvin Kaster , Wei Zhao , Steffen Eger

Research exploring linguistic markers in individuals with depression has demonstrated that language usage can serve as an indicator of mental health. This study investigates the impact of discussion topic as context on linguistic markers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Neha Sharma , Kairit Sirts

Recently, much progress has been made in learning general-purpose sentence representations that can be used across domains. However, most of the existing models typically treat each word in a sentence equally. In contrast, extensive studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Shaonan Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

The way the words are used evolves through time, mirroring cultural or technological evolution of society. Semantic change detection is the task of detecting and analysing word evolution in textual data, even in short periods of time. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Matej Martinc , Syrielle Montariol , Elaine Zosa , Lidia Pivovarova

Linguistics has been instrumental in developing a deeper understanding of human nature. Words are indispensable to bequeath the thoughts, emotions, and purpose of any human interaction, and critically analyzing these words can elucidate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Tushar Sarkar , Nishant Rajadhyaksha

Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identification. We not only need an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Marzieh Mozafari , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi