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We present the first method for automatically mining code idioms from a corpus of previously written, idiomatic software projects. We take the view that a code idiom is a syntactic fragment that recurs across projects and has a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Miltiadis Allamanis , Charles Sutton

Humor understanding is an important and challenging research in natural language processing. As the popularity of pre-trained language models (PLMs), some recent work makes preliminary attempts to adopt PLMs for humor recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Zhixu Li , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Bang Liu , Yunwen Chen

Unlike alphabetic languages, Chinese spelling and pronunciation are different. Both characters and pinyin take an important role in Chinese language understanding. In Chinese NLP tasks, we almost adopt characters or words as model input,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Baojun Wang , Kun Xu , Lifeng Shang

In this paper, we present CSCD-NS, the first Chinese spelling check (CSC) dataset designed for native speakers, containing 40,000 samples from a Chinese social platform. Compared with existing CSC datasets aimed at Chinese learners, CSCD-NS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yong Hu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Automated definition generation systems have been proposed to support vocabulary expansion for language learners. The main barrier to the success of these systems is that learners often struggle to understand definitions due to the presence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Aaron Gluck , Katharina von der Wense , Maria Leonor Pacheco

Topic segmentation and outline generation strive to divide a document into coherent topic sections and generate corresponding subheadings, unveiling the discourse topic structure of a document. Compared with sentence-level topic structure,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Feng Jiang , Weihao Liu , Xiaomin Chu , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu , Haizhou Li

Previously, researchers paid no attention to the creation of unambiguous morpheme embeddings independent from the corpus, while such information plays an important role in expressing the exact meanings of words for parataxis languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zi Lin , Yang Liu

Machine reading comprehension tasks require a machine reader to answer questions relevant to the given document. In this paper, we present the first free-form multiple-Choice Chinese machine reading Comprehension dataset (C^3), containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Localizing a semantic parser to support new languages requires effective cross-lingual generalization. Recent work has found success with machine-translation or zero-shot methods although these approaches can struggle to model how native…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Tom Sherborne , Mirella Lapata

Pinyin-to-character (P2C) conversion is the core component of pinyin-based Chinese input method engine (IME). However, the conversion is seriously compromised by the ambiguities of Chinese characters corresponding to pinyin as well as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yafang Huang , Hai Zhao

This paper introduces the first dataset for evaluating English-Chinese Bilingual Contextual Word Similarity, namely BCWS (https://github.com/MiuLab/BCWS). The dataset consists of 2,091 English-Chinese word pairs with the corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Ta-Chung Chi , Ching-Yen Shih , Yun-Nung Chen

Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) aims to detect and correct erroneous tokens in sentences. Traditional CSC focuses on equal length correction and uses pretrained language models (PLMs). While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junhong Liang , Yu Zhou

Image captioning is a multimodal task involving computer vision and natural language processing, where the goal is to learn a mapping from the image to its natural language description. In general, the mapping function is learned from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang

Adversarial attacks in texts are mostly substitution-based methods that replace words or characters in the original texts to achieve success attacks. Recent methods use pre-trained language models as the substitutes generator. While in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Linyang Li , Yunfan Shao , Demin Song , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

This paper presents a novel algorithm to compute sentiment orientation of Chinese sentiment word. The algorithm uses ideograms which are a distinguishing feature of Chinese language. The proposed algorithm can be applied to any sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Luojie Xiang

We find that existing language modeling datasets contain many near-duplicate examples and long repetitive substrings. As a result, over 1% of the unprompted output of language models trained on these datasets is copied verbatim from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Katherine Lee , Daphne Ippolito , Andrew Nystrom , Chiyuan Zhang , Douglas Eck , Chris Callison-Burch , Nicholas Carlini

Idioms pose a fundamental challenge for language models, as their meaning cannot be inferred from surface form alone. Understanding such expressions, therefore, requires semantic abstraction beyond lexical overlap. We introduce IdioLink, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kai Golan Hashiloni , Daniel Fadlon , Lior Livyatan , Ofri Hefetz , Jiahuan Pei , Kfir Bar

While idiosyncrasies of the Chinese classifier system have been a richly studied topic among linguists (Adams and Conklin, 1973; Erbaugh, 1986; Lakoff, 1986), not much work has been done to quantify them with statistical methods. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Shijia Liu , Hongyuan Mei , Adina Williams , Ryan Cotterell

Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) aims to generate a correct sentence from an erroneous sequence, where different kinds of errors are mixed. This paper divides the CGEC task into two steps, namely spelling error correction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xiuyu Wu , Yunfang Wu

Word meaning, representation, and interpretation play fundamental roles in natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Many of the inherent difficulties in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lifeng Han , Gareth J. F. Jones , Alan F. Smeaton