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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Sowmya S. Sundaram , Mark A. Musen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated text annotation, raising hopes that they might accelerate cross-cultural research by extracting structured data from ethnographic texts. We evaluated 7 state-of-the-art LLMs on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Leonardo S. Goodall , Dor Shilton , Daniel A. Mullins , Harvey Whitehouse

Knowledge tagging for questions plays a crucial role in contemporary intelligent educational applications, including learning progress diagnosis, practice question recommendations, and course content organization. Traditionally, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hang Li , Tianlong Xu , Jiliang Tang , Qingsong Wen

Lexical substitution, i.e. generation of plausible words that can replace a particular target word in a given context, is an extremely powerful technology that can be used as a backbone of various NLP applications, including word sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nikolay Arefyev , Boris Sheludko , Alexander Podolskiy , Alexander Panchenko

The capabilities of large language models have grown significantly in recent years and so too have concerns about their misuse. It is important to be able to distinguish machine-generated text from human-authored content. Prior works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Julien Piet , Chawin Sitawarin , Vivian Fang , Norman Mu , David Wagner

Span annotation - annotating specific text features at the span level - can be used to evaluate texts where single-score metrics fail to provide actionable feedback. Until recently, span annotation was done by human annotators or fine-tuned…

Semantic web is the next generation web, which concerns the meaning of web documents It has the immense power to pull out the most relevant information from the web pages, which is also meaningful to any user, using software agents. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Chandrima Chakrabarti , Sounak Chakravorty

Computational social science (CSS) practitioners often rely on human-labeled data to fine-tune supervised text classifiers. We assess the potential for researchers to augment or replace human-generated training data with surrogate training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Nicholas Pangakis , Samuel Wolken

Semantic legal metadata provides information that helps with understanding and interpreting legal provisions. Such metadata is therefore important for the systematic analysis of legal requirements. However, manually enhancing a large legal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Amin Sleimi , Nicolas Sannier , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel Briand , Marcello Ceci , John Dann

Evaluating the quality of arguments is a crucial aspect of any system leveraging argument mining. However, it is a challenge to obtain reliable and consistent annotations regarding argument quality, as this usually requires domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nailia Mirzakhmedova , Marcel Gohsen , Chia Hao Chang , Benno Stein

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for document reranking has been a popular and promising research direction in recent years, many studies are dedicated to improving the performance and efficiency of using LLMs for reranking. Besides,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qi Liu , Haozhe Duan , Yiqun Chen , Quanfeng Lu , Weiwei Sun , Jiaxin Mao

The unstructured nature of clinical notes within electronic health records often conceals vital patient-related information, making it challenging to access or interpret. To uncover this hidden information, specialized Natural Language…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in sentence-level machine translation, but scaling to document-level translation remains challenging, particularly in modeling long-range dependencies and discourse phenomena…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Miguel Moura Ramos , Patrick Fernandes , Sweta Agrawal , André F. T. Martins

Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in settings where their reliable behavior is governed by strict procedural manuals. Ensuring that such agents comply with the rules from these manuals is challenging, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ashwani Anand , Ivi Chatzi , Ritam Raha , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

In NLP, fine-tuning LLMs is effective for various applications but requires high-quality annotated data. However, manual annotation of data is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and costly. Therefore, LLMs are increasingly used to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Muhammad Uzair Ul Haq , Davide Rigoni , Alessandro Sperduti

This paper describes our resource-building results for an eight-week JHU Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration (SCALE-2009) on Semantically-Informed Machine Translation. Specifically, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Kathryn Baker , Michael Bloodgood , Bonnie J. Dorr , Nathaniel W. Filardo , Lori Levin , Christine Piatko

Comparing document semantics is one of the toughest tasks in both Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. To date, on one hand, the tools for this task are still rare. On the other hand, most relevant methods are devised from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yuqi Kong , Fanchao Meng , Benjamin Carterette

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various natural language benchmarks, prompting a continual need to curate more difficult datasets for larger LLMs, which is costly and time-consuming. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jiahao Ying , Yixin Cao , Yushi Bai , Qianru Sun , Bo Wang , Wei Tang , Zhaojun Ding , Yizhe Yang , Xuanjing Huang , Shuicheng Yan

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 promise automation with better results and less programming, opening up new opportunities for text analysis in political science. In this study, we evaluate LLMs on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Lorenzo Lupo , Oscar Magnusson , Dirk Hovy , Elin Naurin , Lena Wängnerud

Code review is a critical practice in software engineering, yet the growing scale and frequency of code patches in modern projects, together with the widespread adoption of AI code assistants, make manual review increasingly challenging.…

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