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Recognition of uncommon words such as names and technical terminology is important to understanding conversations in context. However, the ability to recognise such words remains a challenge in modern automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Namkyu Jung , Geonmin Kim , Joon Son Chung

Text classification is one of the most widely studied tasks in natural language processing. Motivated by the principle of compositionality, large multilayer neural network models have been employed for this task in an attempt to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Devendra Singh Sachan , Manzil Zaheer , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Biomedical literature often uses complex language and inaccessible professional terminologies. That is why simplification plays an important role in improving public health literacy. Applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zihao Li , Samuel Belkadi , Nicolo Micheletti , Lifeng Han , Matthew Shardlow , Goran Nenadic

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising solutions for a variety of medical and clinical decision support applications. However, LLMs are often subject to different types of biases, which can lead to unfair treatment of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Raphael Poulain , Hamed Fayyaz , Rahmatollah Beheshti

To accelerate MRI, the field of compressed sensing is traditionally concerned with optimizing the image quality after a partial undersampling of the measurable $\textit{k}$-space. In our work, we propose to change the focus from the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Artem Razumov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov

Multi-label text classification (MLC) is a challenging task in settings of large label sets, where label support follows a Zipfian distribution. In this paper, we address this problem through retrieval augmentation, aiming to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ilias Chalkidis , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Recent work has shown that sample-based Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding outperforms beam search in text-to-text generation tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, and image captioning. On the other hand, beam search is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuu Jinnai

Improving pretraining data quality and size is known to boost downstream performance, but the role of text complexity--how hard a text is to read--remains less explored. We reduce surface-level complexity (shorter sentences, simpler words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dan John Velasco , Matthew Theodore Roque

Deep research has emerged as an important task that aims to address hard queries through extensive open-web exploration. To tackle it, most prior work equips large language model (LLM)-based agents with opaque web search APIs, enabling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chuan Meng , Litu Ou , Sean MacAvaney , Jeff Dalton

Automatic text summarization methods generate a shorter version of the input text to assist the reader in gaining a quick yet informative gist. Existing text summarization methods generally focus on a single aspect of text when selecting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ensieh Davoodijam , Nasser Ghadiri , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza , Fabio Rinaldi

Machine Translation is one of the research fields of Computational Linguistics. The objective of many MT Researchers is to develop an MT System that produce good quality and high accuracy output translations and which also covers maximum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Shruti Tyagi , Deepti Chopra , Iti Mathur , Nisheeth Joshi

Mixed Reality (MR) is of increasing interest within technology-driven modern medicine but is not yet used in everyday practice. This situation is changing rapidly, however, and this paper explores the emergence of MR technology and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Long Chen , Thomas Day , Wen Tang , Nigel W. John

Text simplification is the task of rewriting a text so that it is readable and easily understood. In this paper, we propose a simple yet novel unsupervised sentence simplification system that harnesses parsing structures together with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Vy Vo , Weiqing Wang , Wray Buntine

Text simplification plays a crucial role in improving the accessibility and comprehensibility of written information for diverse audiences, including language learners and readers with limited literacy. Despite its importance, large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kenji Hilasaca , Nouran Khallaf , Serge Sharoff

Medical image classification involves thresholding of labels that represent malignancy risk levels. Usually, a task defines a single threshold, and when developing computer-aided diagnosis tools, a single network is trained per such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Vadim Ratner , Yoel Shoshan , Tal Kachman

Semantic concepts and relations encoded in domain-specific ontologies and other medical semantic resources play a crucial role in deciphering terms in medical queries and documents. The exploitation of these resources for tackling the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mohammed Maree , Israa Noor , Khaled Rabayah , Mohammed Belkhatir , Saadat M. Alhashmi

Evaluating the readability of a text can significantly facilitate the precise expression of information in written form. The formulation of text readability assessment involves the identification of meaningful properties of the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hamid Mohammadi , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Tahereh Firoozi , Taha Samavati

In this paper, we introduce a new perspective for improving image restoration by removing degradation in the textual representations of a given degraded image. Intuitively, restoration is much easier on text modality than image one. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jingbo Lin , Zhilu Zhang , Yuxiang Wei , Dongwei Ren , Dongsheng Jiang , Wangmeng Zuo

In medical image classification, supervised learning is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled medical images. To address this, we leverage the visual-textual alignment within Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Umaima Rahman , Raza Imam , Mohammad Yaqub , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Dwarikanath Mahapatra

Readability is on the cusp of a revolution. Fixed text is becoming fluid as a proliferation of digital reading devices rewrite what a document can do. As past constraints make way for more flexible opportunities, there is great need to…