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Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) that performs conditionally independent monotonic alignment. However for translation, CTC exhibits clear limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Brian Yan , Siddharth Dalmia , Yosuke Higuchi , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alan W Black , Shinji Watanabe

Sentence summarization aims at compressing a long sentence into a short one that keeps the main gist, and has extensive real-world applications such as headline generation. In previous work, researchers have developed various approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Puyuan Liu , Xiang Zhang , Lili Mou

Despite the recent success of automatic metrics for assessing translation quality, their application in evaluating the quality of machine-translated chats has been limited. Unlike more structured texts like news, chat conversations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Sweta Agrawal , Amin Farajian , Patrick Fernandes , Ricardo Rei , André F. T. Martins

Recent studies have used both automatic metrics and human evaluations to assess the simplification abilities of LLMs. However, the suitability of existing evaluation methodologies for LLMs remains in question. First, the suitability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xuanxin Wu , Yuki Arase

The classic supervised classification algorithms are efficient, but time-consuming, complicated and not interpretable, which makes it difficult to analyze their results that limits the possibility to improve them based on real observations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Hussam Hamdan

Coherence is an essential property of well-written texts, that refers to the way textual units relate to one another. In the era of generative AI, coherence assessment is essential for many NLP tasks; summarization, generation, long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty

We introduce CEMTM, a context-enhanced multimodal topic model designed to infer coherent and interpretable topic structures from both short and long documents containing text and images. CEMTM builds on fine-tuned large vision language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Content annotation at scale remains challenging, requiring substantial human expertise and effort. This paper presents a case study in code documentation analysis, where we explore the balance between automation efficiency and annotation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mingyue Yuan , Jieshan Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Gelareh Mohammadi , Aaron Quigley

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is a powerful approach for sequence-to-sequence learning, and has been popularly used in speech recognition. The central ideas of CTC include adding a label "blank" during training. With this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Bo-Ru Lu , Frank Shyu , Yun-Nung Chen , Hung-Yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

The majority of research in computational psycholinguistics has concentrated on the processing of words. This study introduces innovative methods for computing sentence-level metrics using multilingual large language models. The metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Kun Sun , Rong Wang

Recent work has proposed using Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantify narrative flow through a measure called sequentiality, which combines topic and contextual terms. A recent critique argued that the original results were confounded by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Amal Sunny , Advay Gupta , Vishnu Sreekumar

Contextual causal reasoning is a critical yet challenging capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate this skill in fragmented settings, failing to ensure context consistency or cover the full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pengfeng Li , Chen Huang , Chaoqun Hao , Hongyao Chen , Xiao-Yong Wei , Wenqiang Lei , See-Kiong Ng

To hold a true conversation, an intelligent agent should be able to occasionally take initiative and recommend the next natural conversation topic. This is a challenging task. A topic suggested by the agent should be relevant to the person,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ali Ahmadvand , Harshita Sahijwani , Eugene Agichtein

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers. Automatic metrics such as BLEU correlate weakly with human annotations, resulting in a significant bias across different models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

Topic modeling has been a widely used tool for unsupervised text analysis. However, comprehensive evaluations of a topic model remain challenging. Existing evaluation methods are either less comparable across different models (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Accurate prediction of conversation topics can be a valuable signal for creating coherent and engaging dialog systems. In this work, we focus on context-aware topic classification methods for identifying topics in free-form human-chatbot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chandra Khatri , Rahul Goel , Behnam Hedayatnia , Angeliki Metanillou , Anushree Venkatesh , Raefer Gabriel , Arindam Mandal

Topic-controllable summarization is an emerging research area with a wide range of potential applications. However, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations. For example, the majority of existing methods built upon recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tatiana Passali , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Automatic dialogue coherence evaluation has attracted increasing attention and is crucial for developing promising dialogue systems. However, existing metrics have two major limitations: (a) they are mostly trained in a simplified two-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Zheng Ye , Liucun Lu , Lishan Huang , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

Objective and scalable measurement of teaching quality is a persistent challenge in education. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential, general-purpose models have struggled to reliably apply complex, authentic classroom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Michael Hardy