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Since automatic translations can contain errors that require substantial human post-editing, machine translation proofreading is essential for improving quality. This paper proposes a novel hybrid approach for robust proofreading that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Feijun Liu , Huifeng Wang , Kun Wang , Yizhen Wang

We consider controllable DNA sequence design, where sequences are generated by conditioning on specific biological properties. While language models (LMs) such as GPT and BERT have achieved remarkable success in natural language generation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Xingyu Su , Xiner Li , Yuchao Lin , Ziqian Xie , Degui Zhi , Shuiwang Ji

Deep neural networks (DNNs) used for brain-computer-interface (BCI) classification are commonly expected to learn general features when trained across a variety of contexts, such that these features could be fine-tuned to specific contexts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Demetres Kostas , Stephane Aroca-Ouellette , Frank Rudzicz

Language model pre-training has shown promising results in various downstream tasks. In this context, we introduce a cross-modal pre-trained language model, called Speech-Text BERT (ST-BERT), to tackle end-to-end spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Minjeong Kim , Gyuwan Kim , Sang-Woo Lee , Jung-Woo Ha

Many recent works on Entity Resolution (ER) leverage Deep Learning techniques involving language models to improve effectiveness. This is applied to both main steps of ER, i.e., blocking and matching. Several pre-trained embeddings have…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alexandros Zeakis , George Papadakis , Dimitrios Skoutas , Manolis Koubarakis

Language models only really need to use an exponential fraction of their neurons for individual inferences. As proof, we present UltraFastBERT, a BERT variant that uses 0.3% of its neurons during inference while performing on par with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Peter Belcak , Roger Wattenhofer

In this work, we show the process of building a large-scale training set from digital and digitized collections at a national library. The resulting Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based language model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Per E Kummervold , Javier de la Rosa , Freddy Wetjen , Svein Arne Brygfjeld

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems are able to generate audio that sounds almost as natural as human speech. However, the bar of developing high-quality TTS systems remains high since a sizable set of studio-quality <text, audio> pairs is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Wei Fang , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Current language models are usually trained using a self-supervised scheme, where the main focus is learning representations at the word or sentence level. However, there has been limited progress in generating useful discourse-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Vladimir Araujo , Andrés Villa , Marcelo Mendoza , Marie-Francine Moens , Alvaro Soto

The purpose of the study is to investigate the relative effectiveness of four different sentiment analysis techniques: (1) unsupervised lexicon-based model using Sent WordNet; (2) traditional supervised machine learning model using logistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shivaji Alaparthi , Manit Mishra

Most pre-trained language models (PLMs) construct word representations at subword level with Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or its variations, by which OOV (out-of-vocab) words are almost avoidable. However, those methods split a word into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Wentao Ma , Yiming Cui , Chenglei Si , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Sentence embedding is an important research topic in natural language processing (NLP) since it can transfer knowledge to downstream tasks. Meanwhile, a contextualized word representation, called BERT, achieves the state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

General-purpose multilingual vector representations, used in retrieval, regression and classification, are traditionally obtained from bidirectional encoder models. Despite their wide applicability, encoders have been recently overshadowed…

Objectives: To adapt and evaluate a deep learning language model for answering why-questions based on patient-specific clinical text. Materials and Methods: Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) models were trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Andrew Wen , Mohamed Y. Elwazir , Sungrim Moon , Jungwei Fan

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task of Biomedical Natural Language Processing for extracting relevant information from biomedical texts, such as clinical records, scientific publications, and electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Fahime Shahrokh , Nasser Ghadiri , Rasoul Samani , Milad Moradi

Transformer, based on the encoder-decoder framework, has achieved state-of-the-art performance on several natural language generation tasks. The encoder maps the words in the input sentence into a sequence of hidden states, which are then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Rongxiang Weng , Haoran Wei , Shujian Huang , Heng Yu , Lidong Bing , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

Code-switching, or alternating between languages within a single conversation, presents challenges for multilingual language models on NLP tasks. This research investigates if pre-training Multilingual BERT (mBERT) on code-switched datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Katherine Xie , Nitya Babbar , Vicky Chen , Yoanna Turura

This paper presents EstBERT, a large pretrained transformer-based language-specific BERT model for Estonian. Recent work has evaluated multilingual BERT models on Estonian tasks and found them to outperform the baselines. Still, based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Hasan Tanvir , Claudia Kittask , Sandra Eiche , Kairit Sirts

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…

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have been a key ingredient to achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of tasks in natural language processing and, more recently, also in information retrieval.Recent research even claims that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries