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Existing Large Language Model (LLM) approaches to SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) generation primarily focus on syntactic validity and formal verification outcomes, while semantic alignment between generated assertions and natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jaime Rafael Imperial , Hao Zheng

Aligning parallel sentences in multilingual corpora is essential to curating data for downstream applications such as Machine Translation. In this work, we present OneAligner, an alignment model specially designed for sentence retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tong Niu , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

The success of a text simplification system heavily depends on the quality and quantity of complex-simple sentence pairs in the training corpus, which are extracted by aligning sentences between parallel articles. To evaluate and improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Chao Jiang , Mounica Maddela , Wuwei Lan , Yang Zhong , Wei Xu

High-quality parallel corpora are essential for Machine Translation (MT) research and translation teaching. However, Arabic-English resources remain scarce and existing datasets mainly consist of simple one-to-one mappings. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Baorong Huang , Ali Asiri

Sentence ordering is the task of arranging the sentences of a given text in the correct order. Recent work using deep neural networks for this task has framed it as a sequence prediction problem. In this paper, we propose a new framing of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

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

Large language models (LLMs), typically designed as a function of next-word prediction, have excelled across extensive NLP tasks. Despite the generality, next-word prediction is often not an efficient formulation for many of the tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuheng Zha , Yichi Yang , Ruichen Li , Zhiting Hu

This paper describes a new alignment algorithm for sequences that can be used for determination of deletions and substitutions. It provides several solutions out of which the best one can be chosen on the basis of minimization of gaps or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Sandeep Hosangadi , Subhash Kak

Parallel sentence extraction is a task addressing the data sparsity problem found in multilingual natural language processing applications. We propose an end-to-end deep neural network approach to detect translational equivalence between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Francis Grégoire , Philippe Langlais

Algorithmic sequence alignment identifies similar segments shared between pairs of documents, and is fundamental to many NLP tasks. But it is difficult to recognize similarities between distant versions of narratives such as translations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tanzir Pial , Steven Skiena

Text simplification is an intralingual translation task in which documents, or sentences of a complex source text are simplified for a target audience. The success of automatic text simplification systems is highly dependent on the quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Regina Stodden , Omar Momen , Laura Kallmeyer

The most common tools for word-alignment rely on a large amount of parallel sentences, which are then usually processed according to one of the IBM model algorithms. The training data is, however, the same as for machine translation (MT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vilém Zouhar , Daria Pylypenko

Word alignments are essential for a variety of NLP tasks. Therefore, choosing the best approaches for their creation is crucial. However, the scarce availability of gold evaluation data makes the choice difficult. We propose SilverAlign, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Abdullatif Köksal , Silvia Severini , Hinrich Schütze

The recent advancements in text-to-image generative models have been remarkable. Yet, the field suffers from a lack of evaluation metrics that accurately reflect the performance of these models, particularly lacking fine-grained metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zhiyu Tan , Xiaomeng Yang , Luozheng Qin , Mengping Yang , Cheng Zhang , Hao Li

We present a simple document alignment method that incorporates sentence order information in both candidate generation and candidate re-scoring. Our method results in 61% relative reduction in error compared to the best previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Brian Thompson , Philipp Koehn

Document alignment techniques based on multilingual sentence representations have recently shown state of the art results. However, these techniques rely on unsupervised distance measurement techniques, which cannot be fined-tuned to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Charith Rajitha , Lakmali Piyarathne , Dilan Sachintha , Surangika Ranathunga

Most existing word alignment methods rely on manual alignment datasets or parallel corpora, which limits their usefulness. Here, to mitigate the dependence on manual data, we broaden the source of supervision by relaxing the requirement for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Masaaki Nagata , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used as decision aids. However, users have diverse values and preferences that can affect their decision-making, which requires novel methods for LLM alignment and personalization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bharadwaj Ravichandran , David Joy , Paul Elliott , Brian Hu , Jadie Adams , Christopher Funk , Emily Veenhuis , Anthony Hoogs , Arslan Basharat

This paper presents a new approach to statistical similarity assessment based on sequence alignment. The algorithm performs mutual matching of two random sequences by successively searching for common elements and by applying sequence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Jakub Nikonowicz , Łukasz Matuszewski , Paweł Kubczak

This paper primarily demonstrates a method to quantitatively assess the alignment between multi-step, structured reasoning in large language models and human preferences. We introduce the Alignment Score, a semantic-level metric that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Boxuan Wang , Zhuoyun Li , Xinmiao Huang , Xiaowei Huang , Yi Dong