English
Related papers

Related papers: Word Ladders: A Mobile Application for Semantic Da…

200 papers

Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Ali Rezaei Nasab

Word embeddings typically represent different meanings of a word in a single conflated vector. Empirical analysis of embeddings of ambiguous words is currently limited by the small size of manually annotated resources and by the fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Katharina Kann , Timothy J. Hazen , Eneko Agirre , Hinrich Schütze

Comprehending meaning from natural language is a primary objective of Natural Language Processing (NLP), and text comprehension is the cornerstone for achieving this objective upon which all other problems like chat bots, language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Long-Huei Chen , Kshitiz Tripathi

We apply definition generators based on open-weights large language models to the task of creating explanations of novel senses, taking target word usages as an input. To this end, we employ the datasets from the AXOLOTL'24 shared task on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mariia Fedorova , Andrey Kutuzov , Francesco Periti , Yves Scherrer

Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances into machine-readable meaning representations. Currently, most semantic parsing methods are not able to utilize contextual information (e.g. dialogue and comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari

This report documents the development, test, and application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated text analysis, with a specific focus on gambling-like elements in digital games, such as lootboxes. The project aimed not only to…

General Economics · Economics 2024-12-13 Thomas Krause , Steffen Otterbach , Johannes Singer

We propose a method of curating high-quality comparable training data for low-resource languages with monolingual annotators. Our method involves using a carefully selected set of images as a pivot between the source and target languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Aman Madaan , Shruti Rijhwani , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Yiming Yang , Graham Neubig

Recent advances in AI have catalyzed the adoption of intelligent educational tools, yet many semantic retrieval systems remain ill-suited to the unique linguistic and structural characteristics of academic content. This study presents two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ramteja Sajja , Yusuf Sermet , Ibrahim Demir

The delayed and incomplete availability of historical findings and the lack of integrative and user-friendly software hampers the reliable interpretation of new clinical data. We developed a free, open, and user-friendly clinical trial…

The paper presents an approach to semantic grounding of language models (LMs) that conceptualizes the LM as a conditional model generating text given a desired semantic message formalized as a set of entity-relationship triples. It embeds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Chris Alberti , Kuzman Ganchev , Michael Collins , Sebastian Gehrmann , Ciprian Chelba

Most existing work that grounds natural language phrases in images starts with the assumption that the phrase in question is relevant to the image. In this paper we address a more realistic version of the natural language grounding task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Bryan A. Plummer , Kevin J. Shih , Yichen Li , Ke Xu , Svetlana Lazebnik , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

Understanding the meaning of words in context is a fundamental capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite extensive evaluation efforts, the extent to which LLMs show evidence that they truly grasp word senses remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Domenico Meconi , Simone Stirpe , Federico Martelli , Leonardo Lavalle , Roberto Navigli

Distributed representations of meaning are a natural way to encode covariance relationships between words and phrases in NLP. By overcoming data sparsity problems, as well as providing information about semantic relatedness which is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Karl Moritz Hermann , Phil Blunsom

Distributed language representation has become the most widely used technique for language representation in various natural language processing tasks. Most of the natural language processing models that are based on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Martina Toshevska , Frosina Stojanovska , Jovan Kalajdjieski

Automatic generators of GUI tests often fail to generate semantically relevant test cases, and thus miss important test scenarios. To address this issue, test adaptation techniques can be used to automatically generate semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè , Valerio Terragni , Daniele Zuddas

In recent years, we have witnessed the growing interest from academia and industry in applying data science technologies to analyze large amounts of data. In this process, a myriad of artifacts (datasets, pipeline scripts, etc.) are…

The ACL Anthology is an online repository that serves as a comprehensive collection of publications in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics (CL). This paper presents a tool called ``ACL Anthology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Chen Tang , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

This paper presents TL;DR Progress, a new tool for exploring the literature on neural text summarization. It organizes 514~papers based on a comprehensive annotation scheme for text summarization approaches and enables fine-grained, faceted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shahbaz Syed , Khalid Al-Khatib , Martin Potthast

The paper describes a system that uses large language model (LLM) technology to support the automatic learning of new entries in an intelligent agent's semantic lexicon. The process is bootstrapped by an existing non-toy lexicon and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sanjay Oruganti , Sergei Nirenburg , Jesse English , Marjorie McShane

The words-as-classifiers model of grounded lexical semantics learns a semantic fitness score between physical entities and the words that are used to denote those entities. In this paper, we explore how such a model can incrementally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Daniele Moro , Stacy Black , Casey Kennington