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Off-the-shelf models are widely used by computational social science researchers to measure properties of text, such as sentiment. However, without access to source data it is difficult to account for domain shift, which represents a threat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Junshen K. Chen , Dallas Card , Dan Jurafsky

With the increasing growth of social media, people have started relying heavily on the information shared therein to form opinions and make decisions. While such a reliance is motivation for a variety of parties to promote information, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Katia Sycara

We present our works on SemEval-2021 Task 5 about Toxic Spans Detection. This task aims to build a model for identifying toxic words in whole posts. We use the BiLSTM-CRF model combining with ToxicBERT Classification to train the detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Son T. Luu , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a core Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. It is a distributed database and protocol with many known weaknesses that subject to countless attacks including spoofing attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Alshaima Almarzooqi , Jawahir Mahmoud , Bayena Alzaabi , Arsiema Ghebremichael , Monther Aldwairi

State-of-the-art deep neural networks demonstrate outstanding performance in semantic segmentation. However, their performance is tied to the domain represented by the training data. Open world scenarios cause inaccurate predictions which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag , Matthias Rottmann

Evolutionary prompt search is a practical black-box approach for red teaming large language models, however existing methods often collapse onto a small family of high-performing prompts, limiting coverage of distinct failure modes. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Onkar Shelar , Travis Desell

Toxic speech on online platforms is a growing concern, impacting user experience and online safety. While text-based toxicity detection is well-studied, audio-based approaches remain underexplored, especially for low-resource languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huy Ba Do , Vy Le-Phuong Huynh , Luan Thanh Nguyen

The opacity in developing large language models (LLMs) is raising growing concerns about the potential contamination of public benchmarks in the pre-training data. Existing contamination detection methods are typically based on the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Feng Yao , Yufan Zhuang , Zihao Sun , Sunan Xu , Animesh Kumar , Jingbo Shang

The objective of Continual Test-time Domain Adaptation (CTDA) is to gradually adapt a pre-trained model to a sequence of target domains without accessing the source data. This paper proposes a Dynamic Sample Selection (DSS) method for CTDA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yanshuo Wang , Jie Hong , Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

We propose a novel language-independent approach to improve the efficiency for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) by dividing the task into two subtasks: Erroneous Span Detection (ESD) and Erroneous Span Correction (ESC). ESD identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mengyun Chen , Tao Ge , Xingxing Zhang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Misspelled words of the malicious kind work by changing specific keywords and are intended to thwart existing automated applications for cyber-environment control such as harassing content detection on the Internet and email spam detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hongyu Gong , Yuchen Li , Suma Bhat , Pramod Viswanath

Pretrained neural language models (LMs) are prone to generating racist, sexist, or otherwise toxic language which hinders their safe deployment. We investigate the extent to which pretrained LMs can be prompted to generate toxic language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Samuel Gehman , Suchin Gururangan , Maarten Sap , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

Toxicity detection has become core safety infrastructure for online moderation, dataset filtering, and deployed language-model systems. Yet most detectors still treat toxicity as an intrinsic property of isolated text. This position paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sergei Berezin , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Content-dense news report important factual information about an event in direct, succinct manner. Information seeking applications such as information extraction, question answering and summarization normally assume all text they deal with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Yinfei Yang , Ani Nenkova

Aspect term extraction is a fundamental task in fine-grained sentiment analysis, which aims at detecting customer's opinion targets from reviews on product or service. The traditional supervised models can achieve promising results with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jingli Shi , Weihua Li , Quan Bai , Yi Yang , Jianhua Jiang

Cross-domain text classification aims at building a classifier for a target domain which leverages data from both source and target domain. One promising idea is to minimize the feature distribution differences of the two domains. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Baoyu Jing , Chenwei Lu , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Cheng Niu

Toxic content detection is crucial for online services to remove inappropriate content that violates community standards. To automate the detection process, prior works have proposed varieties of machine learning (ML) approaches to train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jiang Zhang , Qiong Wu , Yiming Xu , Cheng Cao , Zheng Du , Konstantinos Psounis

Interpretations of a single sentence can vary, particularly when its context is lost. This paper aims to simulate how readers perceive content with varying toxicity levels by generating diverse interpretations of out-of-context sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Maria Mihaela Trusca , Liesbeth Allein

Duplicate question detection is an ongoing challenge in community question answering because semantically equivalent questions can have significantly different words and structures. In addition, the identification of duplicate questions can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Mohomed Shazan Mohomed Jabbar , Luke Kumar , Hamman Samuel , Mi-Young Kim , Sankalp Prabhakar , Randy Goebel , Osmar Zaïane

Matching model is essential for Image-Text Retrieval framework. Existing research usually train the model with a triplet loss and explore various strategy to retrieve hard negative sentences in the dataset. We argue that current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhihao Fan , Zhongyu Wei , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Jianqing Fan