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With the increasing growth of social media, people have started relying heavily on the information shared therein to form opinions and make decisions. While such a reliance is motivation for a variety of parties to promote information, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Katia Sycara

Modern Artificial Intelligence applications show great potential for language-related tasks that rely on next-word prediction. The current generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been linked to claims about human-like linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Evelina Leivada , Gary Marcus , Fritz Günther , Elliot Murphy

A confidence measure is able to estimate the reliability of an hypothesis provided by a machine translation system. The problem of confidence measure can be seen as a process of testing : we want to decide whether the most probable sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Sylvain Raybaud , Caroline Lavecchia , David Langlois , Kamel Smaïli

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes domains, accurately assessing their confidence is crucial. Humans typically express confidence through epistemic markers (e.g., "fairly confident") instead of numerical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiayu Liu , Qing Zong , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song

As large-scale, pre-trained language models achieve human-level and superhuman accuracy on existing language understanding tasks, statistical bias in benchmark data and probing studies have recently called into question their true…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Shane Storks , Joyce Chai

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

The task of definition detection is important for scholarly papers, because papers often make use of technical terminology that may be unfamiliar to readers. Despite prior work on definition detection, current approaches are far from being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongyeop Kang , Andrew Head , Risham Sidhu , Kyle Lo , Daniel S. Weld , Marti A. Hearst

Recent advancements in neural language modelling make it possible to rapidly generate vast amounts of human-sounding text. The capabilities of humans and automatic discriminators to detect machine-generated text have been a large source of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Daphne Ippolito , Daniel Duckworth , Chris Callison-Burch , Douglas Eck

Automated sentiment analysis and opinion mining is a complex process concerning the extraction of useful subjective information from text. The explosion of user generated content on the Web, especially the fact that millions of users, on a…

Can humans tell whether a news article was written by a person or a large language model (LLM)? We investigate this question using JudgeGPT, a study platform that independently measures source attribution (human vs. machine) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

Factual consistency is one of important summary evaluation dimensions, especially as summary generation becomes more fluent and coherent. The ESTIME measure, recently proposed specifically for factual consistency, achieves high correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

News Articles provides crucial information about various events happening in the society but they unfortunately come with different kind of biases. These biases can significantly distort public opinion and trust in the media, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bhushan Santosh Shah , Deven Santosh Shah , Vahida Attar

Statistical topic models provide a general data-driven framework for automated discovery of high-level knowledge from large collections of text documents. While topic models can potentially discover a broad range of themes in a data set,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-08-08 Chaitanya Chemudugunta , Padhraic Smyth , Mark Steyvers

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

Language models (LMs) estimate a probability distribution over strings in a natural language; these distributions are crucial for computing perplexity and surprisal in linguistics research. While we are usually concerned with measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Tiago Pimentel , Clara Meister

We address the task of assessing discourse coherence, an aspect of text quality that is essential for many NLP tasks, such as summarization and language assessment. We propose a hierarchical neural network trained in a multi-task fashion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Youmna Farag , Helen Yannakoudakis

Language models are deployed in settings that require compartmentalization: system prompts should not be disclosed, chain-of-thought reasoning is hidden from users, and sensitive data passes through shared contexts. We test whether models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ari Holtzman , Peter West

The paper presents a language model that develops syntactic structure and uses it to extract meaningful information from the word history, thus enabling the use of long distance dependencies. The model assigns probability to every joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ciprian Chelba

Emotion can be expressed in many ways that can be seen such as facial expression and gestures, speech and by written text. Emotion Detection in text documents is essentially a content - based classification problem involving concepts from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Shiv Naresh Shivhare , Saritha Khethawat

We consider models for which it is important, early in processing, to estimate some variables with high precision, but perhaps at relatively low rates of recall. If some variables can be identified with near certainty, then they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-07-03 Andrew Kae , Gary B. Huang , Erik Learned-Miller