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Transformer models have shown impressive performance on a variety of NLP tasks. Off-the-shelf, pre-trained models can be fine-tuned for specific NLP classification tasks, reducing the need for large amounts of additional training data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Maaike Burghoorn , Maaike H. T. de Boer , Stephan Raaijmakers

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

Conversational machine comprehension (CMC) requires understanding the context of multi-turn dialogue. Using BERT, a pre-training language model, has been successful for single-turn machine comprehension, while modeling multiple turns of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yasuhito Ohsugi , Itsumi Saito , Kyosuke Nishida , Hisako Asano , Junji Tomita

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often have difficulty recognizing uncommon words, that appear infrequently in the training data. One promising method, to improve the recognition accuracy on such rare words, is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Feng-Ju Chang , Jing Liu , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Maurizio Omologo , Ariya Rastrow , Siegfried Kunzmann

With the yearning for deep learning democratization, there are increasing demands to implement Transformer-based natural language processing (NLP) models on resource-constrained devices for low-latency and high accuracy. Existing BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shaoyi Huang , Ning Liu , Yueying Liang , Hongwu Peng , Hongjia Li , Dongkuan Xu , Mimi Xie , Caiwen Ding

BERT and its variants have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various NLP tasks. Since then, various works have been proposed to analyze the linguistic information being captured in BERT. However, the current works do not provide an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sahana Ramnath , Preksha Nema , Deep Sahni , Mitesh M. Khapra

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

Recent developments in transformer-based language models have allowed them to capture a wide variety of world knowledge that can be adapted to downstream tasks with limited resources. However, what pieces of information are understood in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shrayani Mondal , Rishabh Garodia , Arbaaz Qureshi , Taesung Lee , Youngja Park

This paper presents the novel way combining the BERT embedding method and the graph convolutional neural network. This combination is employed to solve the text classification problem. Initially, we apply the BERT embedding method to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Loc Hoang Tran , Tuan Tran , An Mai

In this work we propose a novel attention-based neural network model for the task of fine-grained entity type classification that unlike previously proposed models recursively composes representations of entity mention contexts. Our model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Sonse Shimaoka , Pontus Stenetorp , Kentaro Inui , Sebastian Riedel

Leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data using Transformer-like architectures, like BERT, has gained popularity in recent times owing to their effectiveness in learning general representations that can then be further fine-tuned for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Kasturi Bhattacharjee , Miguel Ballesteros , Rishita Anubhai , Smaranda Muresan , Jie Ma , Faisal Ladhak , Yaser Al-Onaizan

We propose a general method to break down a main complex task into a set of intermediary easier sub-tasks, which are formulated in natural language as binary questions related to the final target task. Our method allows for representing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Felipe Urrutia , Cristian Buc , Valentin Barriere

Item difficulty plays a crucial role in test performance, interpretability of scores, and equity for all test-takers, especially in large-scale assessments. Traditional approaches to item difficulty modeling rely on field testing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sydney Peters , Nan Zhang , Hong Jiao , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Robert Lissitz

The ability of semantic reasoning over the sentence pair is essential for many natural language understanding tasks, e.g., natural language inference and machine reading comprehension. A recent significant improvement in these tasks comes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Weidi Xu , Xingyi Cheng , Kunlong Chen , Wei Wang , Bin Bi , Ming Yan , Chen Wu , Luo Si , Wei Chu , Taifeng Wang

While large language models like BERT demonstrate strong empirical performance on semantic tasks, whether this reflects true conceptual competence or surface-level statistical association remains unclear. I investigate whether BERT encodes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Cole Gawin

One of the most remarkable properties of word embeddings is the fact that they capture certain types of semantic and syntactic relationships. Recently, pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved groundbreaking results across a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zied Bouraoui , Jose Camacho-Collados , Steven Schockaert

This paper investigates whether the power of the models pre-trained on text data, such as BERT, can be transferred to general token sequence classification applications. To verify pre-trained models' transferability, we test the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-Yi Lee

We aim to highlight an interesting trend to contribute to the ongoing debate around advances within legal Natural Language Processing. Recently, the focus for most legal text classification tasks has shifted towards large pre-trained deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Benjamin Clavié , Marc Alphonsus

We analyze various methods for single-label and multi-label text classification across well-known datasets, categorizing them into bag-of-words, sequence-based, graph-based, and hierarchical approaches. Despite the surge in methods like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lukas Galke , Ansgar Scherp , Andor Diera , Fabian Karl , Bao Xin Lin , Bhakti Khera , Tim Meuser , Tushar Singhal

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