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The general goal of text simplification (TS) is to reduce text complexity for human consumption. This paper investigates another potential use of neural TS: assisting machines performing natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hoang Van , Zheng Tang , Mihai Surdeanu

Text classification is a fundamental Natural Language Processing task that has a wide variety of applications, where deep learning approaches have produced state-of-the-art results. While these models have been heavily criticized for their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Aamir Miyajiwala , Arnav Ladkat , Samiksha Jagadale , Raviraj Joshi

Significant progress has been made on text generation by pre-trained language models (PLMs), yet distinguishing between human and machine-generated text poses an escalating challenge. This paper offers an in-depth evaluation of three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda

How can we train models to perform well on hard test data when hard training data is by definition difficult to label correctly? This question has been termed the scalable oversight problem and has drawn increasing attention as language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peter Hase , Mohit Bansal , Peter Clark , Sarah Wiegreffe

Typically, machine learning systems solve new tasks by training on thousands of examples. In contrast, humans can solve new tasks by reading some instructions, with perhaps an example or two. To take a step toward closing this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Orion Weller , Nicholas Lourie , Matt Gardner , Matthew E. Peters

As more content generated by large language models (LLMs) floods into the Internet, information retrieval (IR) systems now face the challenge of distinguishing and handling a blend of human-authored and machine-generated texts. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wei Huang , Keping Bi , Yinqiong Cai , Wei Chen , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Machine comprehension plays an essential role in NLP and has been widely explored with dataset like MCTest. However, this dataset is too simple and too small for learning true reasoning abilities. \cite{hermann2015teaching} therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Tian Tian , Yuezhang Li

Large language models are increasingly used in decision-making tasks that require them to process information from a variety of sources, including both human experts and other algorithmic agents. How do LLMs weigh the information provided…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jessica Y. Bo , Lillio Mok , Ashton Anderson

What factors contribute to the relative success and corresponding difficulties of in-context learning for Large Language Models (LLMs)? Drawing on insights from the literature on human concept learning, we test LLMs on carefully designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Leroy Z. Wang , R. Thomas McCoy , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

In the field of software engineering, applying language models to the token sequence of source code is the state-of-art approach to build a code recommendation system. The syntax tree of source code has hierarchical structures. Ignoring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yixiao Yang

Recent work on explainable NLP has shown that few-shot prompting can enable large pretrained language models (LLMs) to generate grammatical and factual natural language explanations for data labels. In this work, we study the connection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Swarnadeep Saha , Peter Hase , Nazneen Rajani , Mohit Bansal

Text simplification seeks to improve readability while retaining the original content and meaning. Our study investigates whether pre-trained classifiers also maintain such coherence by comparing their predictions on both original and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Miriam Anschütz , Edoardo Mosca , Georg Groh

Reading comprehension is a key for individual success, yet the assessment of question difficulty remains challenging due to the extensive human annotation and large-scale testing required by traditional methods such as linguistic analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yoshee Jain , John Hollander , Amber He , Sunny Tang , Liang Zhang , John Sabatini

Large Language Models (LLMs) are recruited in applications that span from clinical assistance and legal support to question answering and education. Their success in specialized tasks has led to the claim that they possess human-like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Vittoria Dentella , Fritz Guenther , Elliot Murphy , Gary Marcus , Evelina Leivada

The amount of information stored in the form of documents on the internet has been increasing rapidly. Thus it has become a necessity to organize and maintain these documents in an optimum manner. Text classification algorithms study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Vedangi Wagh , Snehal Khandve , Isha Joshi , Apurva Wani , Geetanjali Kale , Raviraj Joshi

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess an extraordinary capability to produce text that is not only coherent and contextually relevant but also strikingly similar to human writing. They adapt to various styles and genres, producing content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chinnappa Guggilla , Budhaditya Roy , Trupti Ramdas Chavan , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

In the recent past, a popular way of evaluating natural language understanding (NLU), was to consider a model's ability to perform natural language inference (NLI) tasks. In this paper, we investigate if NLI tasks, that are rarely used for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lovish Madaan , David Esiobu , Pontus Stenetorp , Barbara Plank , Dieuwke Hupkes

This paper investigates the automation of qualitative data analysis, focusing on inductive coding using large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditional approaches that rely on deductive methods with predefined labels, this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Angelina Parfenova , Andreas Marfurt , Alexander Denzler , Juergen Pfeffer

Classification tasks are usually analysed and improved through new model architectures or hyperparameter optimisation but the underlying properties of datasets are discovered on an ad-hoc basis as errors occur. However, understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Edward Collins , Nikolai Rozanov , Bingbing Zhang

Assessing the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in performing different tasks is crucial for understanding their strengths and weaknesses. This paper presents Hierarchical Prompting Taxonomy (HPT), grounded on human cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Devichand Budagam , Ashutosh Kumar , Mahsa Khoshnoodi , Sankalp KJ , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha