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Explaining how to get from A to B can be challenging. It requires mentally simulating what the listener will do based on what they are told. To capture this process, we propose a computational model that converts utterances into action…

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The previously introduced Modular Ontology Modeling methodology (MOMo) attempts to mimic the human analogical process by using modular patterns to assemble more complex concepts. To support this, MOMo organizes organizes ontology design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Andrew Eells , Brandon Dave , Pascal Hitzler , Cogan Shimizu

Human label variation has been established as a central phenomenon in NLP: the perspectives different annotators have on the same item need to be embraced. Data collection practices thus shifted towards increasing the annotator numbers and…

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Transformers are widely used in natural language processing, where they consistently achieve state-of-the-art performance. This is mainly due to their attention-based architecture, which allows them to model rich linguistic relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nikolaos Mylonas , Ioannis Mollas , Grigorios Tsoumakas

We present results of two methods for assessing the event profile of news articles as a function of verb type. The unique contribution of this research is the focus on the role of verbs, rather than nouns. Two algorithms are presented and…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Judith L. Klavans , Min-Yen Kan

Truly real-life data presents a strong, but exciting challenge for sentiment and emotion research. The high variety of possible `in-the-wild' properties makes large datasets such as these indispensable with respect to building robust…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Lukas Stappen , Alice Baird , Lea Schumann , Björn Schuller

Similarity is a core notion that is used in psychology and two branches of linguistics: theoretical and computational. The similarity datasets that come from the two fields differ in design: psychological datasets are focused around a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Dmitrijs Milajevs , Sascha Griffiths

We present a non-deterministic semantic framework for all modal logics in the modal cube, extending prior works by Kearns and others. Our approach introduces modular and uniform multi-valued non-deterministic matrices (Nmatrices) for each…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Renato Leme , Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel , Marcelo E. Coniglio

Dialogue Acts (DAs) can be used to explain what expert tutors do and what students know during the tutoring process. Most empirical studies adopt the random sampling method to obtain sentence samples for manual annotation of DAs, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Wei Tan , Jionghao Lin , David Lang , Guanliang Chen , Dragan Gasevic , Lan Du , Wray Buntine

While instruction-tuned models have shown remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks, accurately evaluating their ability to follow instructions remains challenging. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shiyang Li , Jun Yan , Hai Wang , Zheng Tang , Xiang Ren , Vijay Srinivasan , Hongxia Jin

Linking human motion and natural language is of great interest for the generation of semantic representations of human activities as well as for the generation of robot activities based on natural language input. However, while there have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Matthias Plappert , Christian Mandery , Tamim Asfour

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has attracted growing attention with the rapid advancement of human-computer interaction. However, different modalities exhibit substantial discrepancies in semantics, quality, and availability, leading…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yan Zhuang , Minhao Liu , Yanru Zhang , Jiawen Deng , Fuji Ren

Pre-trained multilingual language models (PMLMs) are commonly used when dealing with data from multiple languages and cross-lingual transfer. However, PMLMs are trained on varying amounts of data for each language. In practice this means…

We define a family of intuitionistic non-normal modal logics; they can bee seen as intuitionistic counterparts of classical ones. We first consider monomodal logics, which contain only one between Necessity and Possibility. We then consider…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Tiziano Dalmonte , Charles Grellois , Nicola Olivetti

Despite the rapid progress in multihop question-answering (QA), models still have trouble explaining why an answer is correct, with limited explanation training data available to learn from. To address this, we introduce three explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Harsh Jhamtani , Peter Clark

Language models (LMs) have become pivotal in the realm of technological advancements. While their capabilities are vast and transformative, they often include societal biases encoded in the human-produced datasets used for their training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Iñigo Parra

It is a common practice for recent works in vision language cross-modal reasoning to adopt a binary or multi-choice classification formulation taking as input a set of source image(s) and textual query. In this work, we take a sober look at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Qingxiu Dong , Ziwei Qin , Heming Xia , Tian Feng , Shoujie Tong , Haoran Meng , Lin Xu , Weidong Zhan , Sujian Li , Zhongyu Wei , Tianyu Liu , Zuifang Sui

The task of quantifying human behavior by observing interaction cues is an important and useful one across a range of domains in psychological research and practice. Machine learning-based approaches typically perform this task by first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula , Brian Baucom , Shrikanth Narayanan , Panayiotis Georgiou

Conceptual combination performs a fundamental role in creating the broad range of compound phrases utilized in everyday language. This article provides a novel probabilistic framework for assessing whether the semantics of conceptual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Peter D. Bruza , Kirsty Kitto , Brentyn J. Ramm , Laurianne Sitbon

Multimodal Machine Learning has emerged as a prominent research direction across various applications such as Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition, Machine Translation, Hate Speech Recognition, and Movie Genre Classification. This…

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