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Reading comprehension systems for low-resource languages face significant challenges in handling unanswerable questions. These systems tend to produce unreliable responses when correct answers are absent from context. To solve this problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Abrar Eyasir , Tahsin Ahmed , Muhammad Ibrahim

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) models, which integrate large-scale pre-trained generative models with external retrieval mechanisms, have shown significant success in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, applying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hossein Hosseini , Mohammad Sobhan Zare , Amir Hossein Mohammadi , Arefeh Kazemi , Zahra Zojaji , Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh

In this paper a new method for recognition of consonant-vowel phonemes combination on a new Persian speech dataset titled as PCVC (Persian Consonant-Vowel Combination) is proposed which is used to recognize Persian phonemes. In PCVC…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Saber Malekzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Gholizadeh , Seyed Naser Razavi

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized Natural Language Processing, yet their application in high-stakes, specialized domains like religious question answering is hindered by challenges like hallucination and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammad Aghajani Asl , Behrooz Minaei Bidgoli

We introduce GQA, a new dataset for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering, seeking to address key shortcomings of previous VQA datasets. We have developed a strong and robust question engine that leverages scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Language recognition has been significantly advanced in recent years by means of modern machine learning methods such as deep learning and benchmarks with rich annotations. However, research is still limited in low-resource formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Hadi Abdi Khojasteh , Ebrahim Ansari , Mahdi Bohlouli

Recently, open-domain question answering systems have begun to rely heavily on annotated datasets to train neural passage retrievers. However, manually annotating such datasets is both difficult and time-consuming, which limits their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Piotr Rybak

Question answering (QA) is a fundamental means to facilitate assessment and training of narrative comprehension skills for both machines and young children, yet there is scarcity of high-quality QA datasets carefully designed to serve this…

This research introduces a state-of-the-art Persian spelling correction system that seamlessly integrates deep learning techniques with phonetic analysis, significantly enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Dashti , Amid Khatibi Bardsiri , Mehdi Jafari Shahbazzadeh

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for measuring the degree of similarity between categories of two pieces of Persian text, which were published as descriptions of two separate advertisements. We built an appropriate dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hossein Keshavarz , Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi , Mohammad Izadi

One of the challenges in large-scale information retrieval (IR) is to develop fine-grained and domain-specific methods to answer natural language questions. Despite the availability of numerous sources and datasets for answer retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Asma Ben Abacha , Dina Demner-Fushman

Question answering (QA) tasks have been posed using a variety of formats, such as extractive span selection, multiple choice, etc. This has led to format-specialized models, and even to an implicit division in the QA community. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Daniel Khashabi , Sewon Min , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Oyvind Tafjord , Peter Clark , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Persian names present unique challenges for natural language processing applications, particularly in gender detection and digital identity creation, due to transliteration inconsistencies and cultural-specific naming patterns. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Farbod Bijary , Mohsen Ebadpour , Amirhosein Tajbakhsh

The Scholarly Hybrid Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2024 focuses on Question Answering (QA) over diverse scholarly sources: DBLP, SemOpenAlex, and Wikipedia-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fomubad Borista Fondi , Azanzi Jiomekong Fidel , Gaoussou Camara

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. Recent work has focused primarily on answering questions given some relevant document or context, and required very little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Herzig , Nicholas Lourie , Jonathan Berant

Homograph disambiguation, the task of distinguishing words with identical spellings but different meanings, poses a substantial challenge in natural language processing. In this study, we introduce a novel dataset tailored for Persian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh , Kourosh Shahnazari

Machine reading comprehension with unanswerable questions is a challenging task. In this work, we propose a data augmentation technique by automatically generating relevant unanswerable questions according to an answerable question paired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Haichao Zhu , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Wenhui Wang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Question Answering (QA) datasets are crucial in assessing reading comprehension skills for both machines and humans. While numerous datasets have been developed in English for this purpose, a noticeable void exists in less-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Tomás Freitas Osório , Henrique Lopes Cardoso

We present JEC-QA, the largest question answering dataset in the legal domain, collected from the National Judicial Examination of China. The examination is a comprehensive evaluation of professional skills for legal practitioners. College…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Haoxi Zhong , Chaojun Xiao , Cunchao Tu , Tianyang Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Human mind is the palace of curious questions that seek answers. Computational resolution of this challenge is possible through Natural Language Processing techniques. Statistical techniques like machine learning and deep learning require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Pragya Katyayan , Nisheeth Joshi