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Slang is a common type of informal language, but its flexible nature and paucity of data resources present challenges for existing natural language systems. We take an initial step toward machine generation of slang by developing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhewei Sun , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

Recent advancement in large language models (LLMs) has offered a strong potential for natural language systems to process informal language. A representative form of informal language is slang, used commonly in daily conversations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zhewei Sun , Qian Hu , Rahul Gupta , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

Slang is a commonly used type of informal language that poses a daunting challenge to NLP systems. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), however, have made the problem more approachable. While LLM agents are becoming more widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Siyang Wu , Zhewei Sun

The meaning of a slang term can vary in different communities. However, slang semantic variation is not well understood and under-explored in the natural language processing of slang. One existing view argues that slang semantic variation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Zhewei Sun , Yang Xu

Slang interpretation has been a challenging downstream task for Large Language Models (LLMs) as the expressions are inherently embedded in contextual, cultural, and linguistic frameworks. In the absence of domain-specific training data, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinghan Cao , Qingyang Ren , Xiangyun Chen , Xinjin Li , Haoxiang Gao , Yu Zhao

The dynamic nature of language, particularly evident in the realm of slang and memes on the Internet, poses serious challenges to the adaptability of large language models (LLMs). Traditionally anchored to static datasets, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Lingrui Mei , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Baolong Bi , Xueqi Cheng

Considering the large amount of content created online by the minute, slang-aware automatic tools are critically needed to promote social good, and assist policymakers and moderators in restricting the spread of offensive language, abuse,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Aravinda Kolla , Filip Ilievski , Hông-Ân Sandlin , Alain Mermoud

The proposed algorithmic approach deals with finding the sense of a word in an electronic data. Now a day,in different communication mediums like internet, mobile services etc. people use few words, which are slang in nature. This approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Alok Ranjan Pal , Diganta Saha

Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances into machine-readable meaning representations. Currently, most semantic parsing methods are not able to utilize contextual information (e.g. dialogue and comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari

The challenge of slang translation lies in capturing context-dependent semantic extensions, as slang terms often convey meanings beyond their literal interpretation. While slang detection, explanation, and translation have been studied as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jiaan Wang , Jie Zhou

Artificial Intelligence models are becoming increasingly more powerful and accurate, supporting or even replacing humans' decision making. But with increased power and accuracy also comes higher complexity, making it hard for users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Vivian S. Silva , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

Interpretability of a predictive model is a powerful feature that gains the trust of users in the correctness of the predictions. In word sense disambiguation (WSD), knowledge-based systems tend to be much more interpretable than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Panchenko , Fide Marten , Eugen Ruppert , Stefano Faralli , Dmitry Ustalov , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Chris Biemann

A significant amount of information in today's world is stored in structured and semi-structured knowledge bases. Efficient and simple methods to query them are essential and must not be restricted to only those who have expertise in formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Aishwarya Kamath , Rajarshi Das

Recently generating natural language explanations has shown very promising results in not only offering interpretable explanations but also providing additional information and supervision for prediction. However, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Wangchunshu Zhou , Jinyi Hu , Hanlin Zhang , Xiaodan Liang , Maosong Sun , Chenyan Xiong , Jian Tang

Argumentation is a very active research field of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the representation and evaluation of arguments used in dialogues between humans and/or artificial agents. Acceptability semantics of formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zlatina Mileva , Antonis Bikakis , Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

We provide a novel notion of what it means to be interpretable, looking past the usual association with human understanding. Our key insight is that interpretability is not an absolute concept and so we define it relative to a target model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Amit Dhurandhar , Vijay Iyengar , Ronny Luss , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Can a machine understand the meanings of natural language? Recent developments in the generative large language models (LLMs) of artificial intelligence have led to the belief that traditional philosophical assumptions about machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Vladimír Havlík

The development of mechanised language specification based on structured operational semantics, with applications to verified compilers and sound program analysis, requires huge effort. General theory and frameworks have been proposed to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Martin Bodin , Philippa Gardner , Thomas Jensen , Alan Schmitt

Scalar inferences (SI) are a signature example of how humans interpret language based on unspoken alternatives. While empirical studies have demonstrated that human SI rates are highly variable -- both within instances of a single scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jennifer Hu , Roger Levy , Judith Degen , Sebastian Schuster

In this paper, we introduce a novel interpreting framework that learns an interpretable model based on an ontology-based sampling technique to explain agnostic prediction models. Different from existing approaches, our algorithm considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Han Hu , Anuja Badeti , David Newman , Dejing Dou
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