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Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to identify the emotion of each utterance in a conversation, playing a vital role in empathetic artificial intelligence. With the growing of large language models (LLMs), instruction tuning has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hui Ma , Bo Zhang , Jinpeng Hu , Zenglin Shi

Entity typing is the task of assigning semantic types to the entities that are mentioned in a text. In the case of fine-grained entity typing (FET), a large set of candidate type labels is considered. Since obtaining sufficient amounts of…

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We address the task of entity-relationship (E-R) retrieval, i.e, given a query characterizing types of two or more entities and relationships between them, retrieve the relevant tuples of related entities. Answering E-R queries requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

Fine-grained entity typing is a challenging problem since it usually involves a relatively large tag set and may require to understand the context of the entity mention. In this paper, we use entity linking to help with the fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hongliang Dai , Donghong Du , Xin Li , Yangqiu Song

Previous works on emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) follow a two-step paradigm, which can be summarized as first producing context-independent features via fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) and then analyzing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiangyu Qin , Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui , Tingting Zhang , Yanran Li , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Li Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize specified entities or regions in an image based on natural language descriptions. While existing methods handle single-entity localization, they often ignore complex inter-entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yizhi Hu , Zezhao Tian , Xingqun Qi , Chen Su , Bingkun Yang , Junhui Yin , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Zhenan Sun

We study Comparative Preference Classification (CPC) which aims at predicting whether a preference comparison exists between two entities in a given sentence and, if so, which entity is preferred over the other. High-quality CPC models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Zeyu Li , Yilong Qin , Zihan Liu , Wei Wang

Recently, prompt-based learning has gained popularity across many natural language processing (NLP) tasks by reformulating them into a cloze-style format to better align pre-trained language models (PLMs) with downstream tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wenjie Zhang , Xiaoning Song , Zhenhua Feng , Tianyang Xu , Xiaojun Wu

Pre-trained models such as BERT are widely used in NLP tasks and are fine-tuned to improve the performance of various NLP tasks consistently. Nevertheless, the fine-tuned BERT model trained on our protocol corpus still has a weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Shoubin Li , Wenzao Cui , Yujiang Liu , Xuran Ming , Jun Hu , YuanzheHu , Qing Wang

Classifying semantic relations between entity pairs in sentences is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most previous models for relation classification rely on the high-level lexical and syntactic features obtained by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Joohong Lee , Sangwoo Seo , Yong Suk Choi

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an important role in driving the development of human-machine interaction. Emotions can exist in multiple modalities, and multimodal ERC mainly faces two problems: (1) the noise problem in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shihao Zou , Xianying Huang , Xudong Shen

Relation classification (RC) task is one of fundamental tasks of information extraction, aiming to detect the relation information between entity pairs in unstructured natural language text and generate structured data in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yan Xiao , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao

Entity Matching (EM) involves identifying different data representations referring to the same entity from multiple data sources and is typically formulated as a binary classification problem. It is a challenging problem in data integration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 John Bosco Mugeni , Steven Lynden , Toshiyuki Amagasa , Akiyoshi Matono

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify whether two entity records from two relational tables refer to the same real-world entity, is one of the fundamental problems in data management. Traditional EM assumes that two tables are…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Pengfei Wang , Xiaocan Zeng , Lu Chen , Fan Ye , Yuren Mao , Junhao Zhu , Yunjun Gao

The explosion of e-commerce has caused the need for processing and analysis of product titles, like entity typing in product titles. However, the rapid activity in e-commerce has led to the rapid emergence of new entities, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yibo Wang , Congying Xia , Guan Wang , Philip Yu

Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language processing, temporal relation classification remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Sousa , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims at determining whether there is a causal relation between two event mentions. Conventional prompt learning designs a prompt template to first predict an answer word and then maps it to the final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Wei Xiang , Chuanhong Zhan , Bang Wang

Recommender systems are frequently challenged by the data sparsity problem. One approach to mitigate this issue is through cross-domain recommendation techniques. In a cross-domain context, sharing knowledge between domains can enhance the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis , Craig Macdonald