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Few-shot learning-the ability to train models with access to limited data-has become increasingly popular in the natural language processing (NLP) domain, as large language models such as GPT and T0 have been empirically shown to achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Robert Kraig Helmeczi , Mucahit Cevik , Savas Yıldırım

In NLP, Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) has become essential for enabling models to classify text into categories unseen during training, particularly in low-resource languages and domains where labeled data is scarce. While pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Fred Philippy , Siwen Guo , Cedric Lothritz , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Author profiling classifies author characteristics by analyzing how language is shared among people. In this work, we study that task from a low-resource viewpoint: using little or no training data. We explore different zero and few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Mara Chinea-Rios , Thomas Müller , Gretel Liz De la Peña Sarracén , Francisco Rangel , Marc Franco-Salvador

Existing approaches to few-shot learning in NLP rely on large language models (LLMs) and/or fine-tuning of these to generalise on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we propose a novel few-shot learning approach based on soft-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Avyav Kumar Singh , Ekaterina Shutova , Helen Yannakoudakis

Transformer-based language models have achieved remarkable success in few-shot in-context learning and drawn a lot of research interest. However, these models' performance greatly depends on the choice of the example prompts and also has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Genta Indra Winata , Liang-Kang Huang , Soumya Vadlamannati , Yash Chandarana

We introduce LAMPO, a novel paradigm that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving few-shot multi-class ordinal classification tasks. Unlike conventional methods, which concatenate all demonstration examples with the test instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhen Qin , Junru Wu , Jiaming Shen , Tianqi Liu , Xuanhui Wang

Most recent progress in natural language understanding (NLU) has been driven, in part, by benchmarks such as GLUE, SuperGLUE, SQuAD, etc. In fact, many NLU models have now matched or exceeded "human-level" performance on many tasks in these…

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on benchmark tasks, especially in zero or few-shot settings. However, these benchmarks often do not adequately address the challenges posed in the real-world,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Rohan Bhambhoria , Lei Chen , Xiaodan Zhu

This paper introduces a novel approach for efficiently distilling LLMs into smaller, application-specific models, significantly reducing operational costs and manual labor. Addressing the challenge of deploying computationally intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lukas Vöge , Vincent Gurgul , Stefan Lessmann

Context: Requirements engineering researchers have been experimenting with machine learning and deep learning approaches for a range of RE tasks, such as requirements classification, requirements tracing, ambiguity detection, and modelling.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Waad Alhoshan , Alessio Ferrari , Liping Zhao

Recently, Large Language Models like ChatGPT have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in various Natural Language Processing tasks. Their application in Requirements Engineering, especially in requirements classification, has gained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Abdelkarim El-Hajjami , Nicolas Fafin , Camille Salinesi

Modern classification models tend to struggle when the amount of annotated data is scarce. To overcome this issue, several neural few-shot classification models have emerged, yielding significant progress over time, both in Computer Vision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Thomas Dopierre , Christophe Gravier , Wilfried Logerais

Intent detection and slot filling are critical tasks in spoken and natural language understanding for task-oriented dialog systems. In this work we describe our participation in the slot and intent detection for low-resource language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sang Yun Kwon , Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Data scarcity is a common problem in NLP, especially when the annotation pertains to nuanced socio-linguistic concepts that require specialized knowledge. As a result, few-shot identification of these concepts is desirable. Few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shamik Roy , Nishanth Sridhar Nakshatri , Dan Goldwasser

Zero-shot slot filling is a well-established subtask of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). However, most existing methods primarily focus on single-turn text data, overlooking the unique complexities of conversational dialogue.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mansi Rana , Kadri Hacioglu , Sindhuja Gopalan , Maragathamani Boothalingam

Recognizing customer intent accurately with language models based on customer-agent conversational data is essential in today's digital customer service marketplace, but it is often hindered by the lack of sufficient labeled data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyu Luo , Peng Liu , Stefan Esping

Large Language Models revolutionized NLP and showed dramatic performance improvements across several tasks. In this paper, we investigated the role of such language models in text classification and how they compare with other approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Sowmya Vajjala , Shwetali Shimangaud

Zero-shot entity and relation classification models leverage available external information of unseen classes -- e.g., textual descriptions -- to annotate input text data. Thanks to the minimum data requirement, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gabriele Picco , Leopold Fuchs , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Alberto Purpura , Vanessa López , Hoang Thanh Lam

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved tremendous success in natural language understanding tasks. While different learning schemes -- fine-tuning, zero-shot, and few-shot learning -- have been widely explored and compared for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Liang Xu , Xiaojing Lu , Chenyang Yuan , Xuanwei Zhang , Huilin Xu , Hu Yuan , Guoao Wei , Xiang Pan , Xin Tian , Libo Qin , Hu Hai

In intent detection tasks, leveraging meaningful semantic information from intent labels can be particularly beneficial for few-shot scenarios. However, existing few-shot intent detection methods either ignore the intent labels, (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Jiangshu Du , Congying Xia , Wenpeng Yin , Tingting Liang , Philip S. Yu