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Idioms, whose figurative meanings usually differ from their literal interpretations, are common in everyday language, especially in Chinese, where they often contain historical references and follow specific structural patterns. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Cai Yang , Yao Dou , David Heineman , Xiaofeng Wu , Wei Xu

Idioms, are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Due to the properties of non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, Chinese Idioms are hard to be understood by children and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jipeng Qiang , Yang Li , Chaowei Zhang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu , Xindong Wu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been widely used in recent years with significant improvements for many language pairs. Although state-of-the-art NMT systems are generating progressively better translations, idiom translation remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Marzieh Fadaee , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz

Chinese idioms are special fixed phrases usually derived from ancient stories, whose meanings are oftentimes highly idiomatic and non-compositional. The Chinese idiom prediction task is to select the correct idiom from a set of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Minghuan Tan , Jing Jiang

Cloze-style reading comprehension in Chinese is still limited due to the lack of various corpora. In this paper we propose a large-scale Chinese cloze test dataset ChID, which studies the comprehension of idiom, a unique language phenomenon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Chujie Zheng , Minlie Huang , Aixin Sun

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meanings often cannot be inferred from their individual words, making them difficult to process computationally and posing challenges for human experimental studies. This survey reviews datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Flor , Xinyi Liu , Anna Feldman

Machine Translation (MT) evaluation has gone beyond metrics, towards more specific linguistic phenomena. Regarding English-Chinese language pairs, passive sentences are constructed and distributed differently due to language variation, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyue Ma , Pol Pastells , Mireia Farrús , Mariona Taulé

Poetry is one of the most important art forms of human languages. Recently many studies have focused on incorporating some linguistic features of poetry, such as style and sentiment, into its understanding or generation system. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Wenhao Li , Fanchao Qi , Maosong Sun , Xiaoyuan Yi , Jiarui Zhang

Idioms are common in everyday language, but often pose a challenge to translators because their meanings do not follow from the meanings of their parts. Despite significant advances, machine translation systems still struggle to translate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Emmy Liu , Aditi Chaudhary , Graham Neubig

Idiom translation is a challenging problem in machine translation because the meaning of idioms is non-compositional, and a literal (word-by-word) translation is likely to be wrong. In this paper, we focus on evaluating the quality of idiom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yutong Shao , Rico Sennrich , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

Semantic prosody is a collocational meaning formed through the co-occurrence of a linguistic unit and a consistent series of collocates, which should be treated separately from semantic meaning. Since words that are literal translations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xinyue Ma , Pol Pastells , Mireia Farrús , Mariona Taulé

Machine translation requires large amounts of parallel text. While such datasets are abundant in domains such as newswire, they are less accessible in the biomedical domain. Chinese and English are two of the most widely spoken languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Boxiang Liu , Liang Huang

Idioms represent a ubiquitous vehicle for conveying sentiments in the realm of everyday discourse, rendering the nuanced analysis of idiom sentiment crucial for a comprehensive understanding of emotional expression within real-world texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Fuqiang Niu , Minghuan Tan , Bowen Zhang , Min Yang , Ruifeng Xu

Idioms are defined as a group of words with a figurative meaning not deducible from their individual components. Although modern machine translation systems have made remarkable progress, translating idioms remains a major challenge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Iuliia Zaitova , Badr M. Abdullah , Wei Xue , Dietrich Klakow , Bernd Möbius , Tania Avgustinova

Automatic translation of dialogue texts is a much needed demand in many real life scenarios. However, the currently existing neural machine translation delivers unsatisfying results. In this paper, we conduct a deep analysis of a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tao Wang , Chengqi Zhao , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li , Deyi Xiong

In machine translation, a common problem is that the translation of certain words even if translated can cause incomprehension of the target language audience due to different cultural backgrounds. A solution to solve this problem is to add…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Renhan Lou , Jan Niehues

Machine Translation of Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) poses significant challenges. Recent work on CSI translation has shown some success using Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to different languages and cultures; however, a deeper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhonghe Zhang , Xiaoyu He , Vivek Iyer , Alexandra Birch

Idiomatic expressions can be problematic for natural language processing applications as their meaning cannot be inferred from their constituting words. A lack of successful methodological approaches and sufficiently large datasets prevents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Tadej Škvorc , Polona Gantar , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction for Chinese literature text is regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of tagging sets. In this paper, we build a discourse-level dataset from hundreds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jingjing Xu , Ji Wen , Xu Sun , Qi Su

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they truly understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online -- commonly known as memes? In this paper, we introduce CHIME, a dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yubo Xie , Chenkai Wang , Zongyang Ma , Fahui Miao
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