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Given the growing importance of AI literacy, we decided to write this tutorial to help narrow the gap between the discourse among those who study language models -- the core technology underlying ChatGPT and similar products -- and those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Sofia Serrano , Zander Brumbaugh , Noah A. Smith

As an ubiquitous method in natural language processing, word embeddings are extensively employed to map semantic properties of words into a dense vector representation. They capture semantic and syntactic relations among words but the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Lutfi Kerem Senel , Ihsan Utlu , Furkan Şahinuç , Haldun M. Ozaktas , Aykut Koç

Understanding the meaning of words is crucial for many tasks that involve human-machine interaction. This has been tackled by research in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Recently, WSD and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 María G. Buey , Carlos Bobed , Jorge Gracia , Eduardo Mena

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have shown remarkable abilities in producing human-like text. However, it is unclear how accurately these models internalize concepts that shape human thought and behavior. Here, we developed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hiro Taiyo Hamada , Ippei Fujisawa , Genji Kawakita , Yuki Yamada

Understanding context-dependent variation in word meanings is a key aspect of human language comprehension supported by the lexicon. Lexicographic resources (e.g., WordNet) capture only some of this context-dependent variation; for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sathvik Nair , Mahesh Srinivasan , Stephan Meylan

Meaning of words constantly changes given the events in modern civilization. Large Language Models use word embeddings, which are often static and thus cannot cope with this semantic change. Thus,it is important to resolve ambiguity in word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Mihir Godbole , Parth Dandavate , Aditya Kane

The emergence of generative large language models (LLMs) raises the question: what will be its impact on crowdsourcing? Traditionally, crowdsourcing has been used for acquiring solutions to a wide variety of human-intelligence tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Jan Cegin , Jakub Simko , Peter Brusilovsky

Recent advances in NLP have been attributed to the emergence of large-scale pre-trained language models. GPT-2, in particular, is suited for generation tasks given its left-to-right language modeling objective, yet the linguistic quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wei-Jen Ko , Junyi Jessy Li

Text classification stands as a cornerstone within the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly when viewed through computer science and engineering. The past decade has seen deep learning revolutionize text classification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Marco Siino , Ilenia Tinnirello , Marco La Cascia

Neural language models learn word representations, or embeddings, that capture rich linguistic and conceptual information. Here we investigate the embeddings learned by neural machine translation models, a recently-developed class of neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Felix Hill , Kyunghyun Cho , Sebastien Jean , Coline Devin , Yoshua Bengio

Word embeddings are one of the most useful tools in any modern natural language processing expert's toolkit. They contain various types of information about each word which makes them the best way to represent the terms in any NLP task. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Armin Seyeditabari , Narges Tabari , Shafie Gholizade , Wlodek Zadrozny

Distributional semantics is the linguistic theory that a word's meaning can be derived from its distribution in natural language (i.e., its use). Language models are commonly viewed as an implementation of distributional semantics, as they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhang Enyan , Zewei Wang , Michael A. Lepori , Ellie Pavlick , Helena Aparicio

Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the first generation of GPT, it is striking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Edwin Roland , Richard Jean So

In this paper, we tackle the task of definition modeling, where the goal is to learn to generate definitions of words and phrases. Existing approaches for this task are discriminative, combining distributional and lexical semantics in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Machel Reid , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yutaka Matsuo

Generating dictionary definitions automatically can prove useful for language learners. However, it's still a challenging task of cross-lingual definition generation. In this work, we propose to generate definitions in English for words in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Cunliang Kong , Liner Yang , Tianzuo Zhang , Qinan Fan , Zhenghao Liu , Yun Chen , Erhong Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping information retrieval by enabling interactive, generative, and inference-driven search. While traditional keyword-based search remains central to web and academic information access, it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhitong Guan , Yi Wang

Static word embeddings that represent words by a single vector cannot capture the variability of word meaning in different linguistic and extralinguistic contexts. Building on prior work on contextualized and dynamic word embeddings, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Valentin Hofmann , Janet B. Pierrehumbert , Hinrich Schütze

Many words have evolved in meaning as a result of cultural and social change. Understanding such changes is crucial for modelling language and cultural evolution. Low-dimensional embedding methods have shown promise in detecting words'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Xiaofei Xu , Ke Deng , Fei Hu , Li Li

Native speakers can judge whether a sentence is an acceptable instance of their language. Acceptability provides a means of evaluating whether computational language models are processing language in a human-like manner. We test the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Wang Jing , M. A. Kelly , David Reitter

Measuring meaning is a central problem in cultural sociology and word embeddings may offer powerful new tools to do so. But like any tool, they build on and exert theoretical assumptions. In this paper I theorize the ways in which word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Alina Arseniev-Koehler