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Short answer assessment is a vital component of science education, allowing evaluation of students' complex three-dimensional understanding. Large language models (LLMs) that possess human-like ability in linguistic tasks are increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yucheng Chu , Peng He , Hang Li , Haoyu Han , Kaiqi Yang , Yu Xue , Tingting Li , Joseph Krajcik , Jiliang Tang

When we can not assume a large amount of annotated data , active learning is a good strategy. It consists in learning a model on a small amount of annotated data (annotation budget) and in choosing the best set of points to annotate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Umang Aggarwal , Adrian Popescu , Céline Hudelot

We study the problem of semi-supervised question answering----utilizing unlabeled text to boost the performance of question answering models. We propose a novel training framework, the Generative Domain-Adaptive Nets. In this framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Zhilin Yang , Junjie Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) for annotating document utility in training retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, aiming to reduce dependence on costly human annotations. We address the gap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hengran Zhang , Minghao Tang , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Shihao Liu , Daiting Shi , Dawei Yin , Xueqi Cheng

Many machine learning systems today are trained on large amounts of human-annotated data. Data annotation tasks that require a high level of competency make data acquisition expensive, while the resulting labels are often subjective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Eric Xing , Tom Mitchell

Data sparsity is one of the key challenges associated with model development in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for conversational agents. The challenge is made more complex by the demand for high quality annotated utterances commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Olga Golovneva , Charith Peris

Most previous unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for question answering(QA) require access to source domain data while fine-tuning the model for the target domain. Source domain data may, however, contain sensitive information and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 M. Yin , B. Wang , Y. Dong , C. Ling

Constructed-response questions are crucial to encourage generative processing and test a learner's understanding of core concepts. However, the limited availability of instructor time, large class sizes, and other resource constraints pose…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Shyam Agarwal , Ali Moghimi , Kevin C. Haudek

Robustness in Natural Language Processing continues to be a pertinent issue, where state of the art models under-perform under naturally shifted distributions. In the context of Question Answering, work on domain adaptation methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury , Aman Chadha

In the era of data-driven intelligence, the paradox of data abundance and annotation scarcity has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the advancement of machine learning. This paper gives a detailed overview of Active Learning (AL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chiung-Yi Tseng , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

Question answering (QA) has demonstrated impressive progress in answering questions from customized domains. Nevertheless, domain adaptation remains one of the most elusive challenges for QA systems, especially when QA systems are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Ziyi Kou , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains a time-consuming and costly challenge in Argument Mining. Active Learning reduces the amount of data necessary for the training of machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Nikolai Solmsdorf , Dietrich Trautmann , Hinrich Schütze

Large amounts of annotated data have become more important than ever, especially since the rise of deep learning techniques. However, manual annotations are costly. We propose a tool that enables researchers to create large, high-quality,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Franziska Weeber , Felix Hamborg , Karsten Donnay , Bela Gipp

Improving performance in multiple domains is a challenging task, and often requires significant amounts of data to train and test models. Active learning techniques provide a promising solution by enabling models to select the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Anand Gokul Mahalingam , Aayush Shah , Akshay Gulati , Royston Mascarenhas , Rakshitha Panduranga

Response generation for task-oriented dialogues implicitly optimizes two objectives at the same time: task completion and language quality. Conditioned response generation serves as an effective approach to separately and better optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Xinting Huang , Jianzhong Qi , Yu Sun , Rui Zhang

Closed-book question answering (QA) requires a model to directly answer an open-domain question without access to any external knowledge. Prior work on closed-book QA either directly finetunes or prompts a pretrained language model (LM) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Dan Su , Mostofa Patwary , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Peng Xu , Ryan Prenger , Mohammad Shoeybi , Pascale Fung , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

A question-answering (QA) system is to search suitable answers within a knowledge base. Current QA systems struggle with queries requiring complex reasoning or real-time knowledge integration. They are often supplemented with retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sizhe Yuen , Ting Su , Ziyang Wang , Yali Du , Adam J. Sobey

Online reviews provide rich information about products and service, while it remains inefficient for potential consumers to exploit the reviews for fulfilling their specific information need. We propose to explore question generation as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qian Yu , Lidong Bing , Qiong Zhang , Wai Lam , Luo Si

Most state-of-the-art models for named entity recognition (NER) rely on the availability of large amounts of labeled data, making them challenging to extend to new, lower-resourced languages. However, there are now several proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Aditi Chaudhary , Jiateng Xie , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig , Jaime G. Carbonell