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Recently, neural methods have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks for many languages without the need for manually crafted features. However, these models still require manually annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 M Saiful Bari , Shafiq Joty , Prathyusha Jwalapuram

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (CL-NER) aims to transfer knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource languages. However, existing zero-shot CL-NER (ZCL-NER) approaches primarily focus on Latin script language (LSL), where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihao Zhang , Sophia Yat Mei Lee , Dong Zhang , Shoushan Li , Guodong Zhou

Social scientists quickly adopted large language models due to their ability to annotate documents without supervised training, an ability known as zero-shot learning. However, due to their compute demands, cost, and often proprietary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Michael Burnham , Kayla Kahn , Ryan Yank Wang , Rachel X. Peng

Understanding how news narratives frame entities is crucial for studying media's impact on societal perceptions of events. In this paper, we evaluate the zero-shot capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in classifying framing roles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Enfa Fane , Mihai Surdeanu , Eduardo Blanco , Steven R. Corman

In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yaqing Wang , Haoda Chu , Chao Zhang , Jing Gao

In this paper, we analyze zero-shot taxonomy learning methods which are based on distilling knowledge from language models via prompting and sentence scoring. We show that, despite their simplicity, these methods outperform some supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Devansh Jain , Luis Espinosa Anke

Existing methods for the zero-shot detection of machine-generated text are dominated by three statistical quantities: log-likelihood, log-rank, and entropy. As language models mimic the distribution of human text ever closer, this will…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tom Kempton , Stuart Burrell , Connor Cheverall

Recent foundational language models have shown state-of-the-art performance in many NLP tasks in zero- and few-shot settings. An advantage of these models over more standard approaches based on fine-tuning is the ability to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Aleksandra Edwards , Jose Camacho-Collados

There has been a recent spike in interest in multi-modal Language and Vision problems. On the language side, most of these models primarily focus on English since most multi-modal datasets are monolingual. We try to bridge this gap with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Pranav Aggarwal , Ritiz Tambi , Ajinkya Kale

This paper evaluates Few-Shot Prompting with Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Traditional NER systems rely on extensive labeled datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. Few-Shot Prompting or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hédi Zeghidi , Ludovic Moncla

In this paper we present a system that exploits different pre-trained Language Models for assigning domain labels to WordNet synsets without any kind of supervision. Furthermore, the system is not restricted to use a particular set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Oscar Sainz , German Rigau

In this paper, we present a Bayesian multilingual document model for learning language-independent document embeddings. The model is an extension of BaySMM [Kesiraju et al 2020] to the multilingual scenario. It learns to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Santosh Kesiraju , Sangeet Sagar , Ondřej Glembek , Lukáš Burget , Ján Černocký , Suryakanth V Gangashetty

Large language models have shown that impressive zero-shot performance can be achieved through natural language prompts (Radford et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020; Sanh et al., 2021). Creating an effective prompt, however, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Gabriel Orlanski

The lack of annotated data in many languages is a well-known challenge within the field of multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Therefore, many recent studies focus on zero-shot transfer learning and joint training across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Niels van der Heijden , Samira Abnar , Ekaterina Shutova

To combat the potential misuse of Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology, a variety of algorithms have been developed for the detection of AI-generated texts. Traditionally, this task is treated as a binary classification problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yi-Fan Zhang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan , Rong Jin

Annotating words in a historical document image archive for word image recognition purpose demands time and skilled human resource (like historians, paleographers). In a real-life scenario, obtaining sample images for all possible words is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Ravi Bhatt , Anuj Rai , Narayanan C. Krishnan , Sukalpa Chanda

Named entity recognition (NER) suffers from the scarcity of annotated training data, especially for low-resource languages without labeled data. Cross-lingual NER has been proposed to alleviate this issue by transferring knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian Yang , Shaohan Huang , Shuming Ma , Yuwei Yin , Li Dong , Dongdong Zhang , Hongcheng Guo , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Aspect-based sentiment analysis involves the recognition of so called opinion target expressions (OTEs). To automatically extract OTEs, supervised learning algorithms are usually employed which are trained on manually annotated corpora. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Soufian Jebbara , Philipp Cimiano

Language model (LM) prompting--a popular paradigm for solving NLP tasks--has been shown to be susceptible to miscalibration and brittleness to slight prompt variations, caused by its discriminative prompting approach, i.e., predicting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sachin Kumar , Chan Young Park , Yulia Tsvetkov

POS tagging plays a fundamental role in numerous applications. While POS taggers are highly accurate in well-resourced settings, they lag behind in cases of limited or missing training data. This paper focuses on POS tagging for languages…

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