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Dividing oral histories into topically coherent segments can make them more accessible online. People regularly make judgments about where coherent segments can be extracted from oral histories. But making these judgments can be taxing, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ryan Shaw

Many automated processes such as auto-piloting rely on a good semantic segmentation as a critical component. To speed up performance, it is common to downsample the input frame. However, this comes at the cost of missed small objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Dmitrii Marin , Zijian He , Peter Vajda , Priyam Chatterjee , Sam Tsai , Fei Yang , Yuri Boykov

Automatic methods and metrics that assess various quality criteria of automatically generated texts are important for developing NLG systems because they produce repeatable results and allow for a fast development cycle. We present here an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

Automatic evaluation of various text quality criteria produced by data-driven intelligent methods is very common and useful because it is cheap, fast, and usually yields repeatable results. In this paper, we present an attempt to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

Breaking down the structure of long texts into semantically coherent segments makes the texts more readable and supports downstream applications like summarization and retrieval. Starting from an apparent link between text coherence and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Goran Glavaš , Swapna Somasundaran

Text generation has become more accessible than ever, and the increasing interest in these systems, especially those using large language models, has spurred an increasing number of related publications. We provide a systematic literature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Jonas Becker , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are gearing up to surpass human creativity. The veracity of the statement needs careful consideration. In recent developments, critical questions arise regarding the authenticity of human work and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sai Teja Lekkala , Yadagiri Annepaka , Arun Kumar Challa , Samatha Reddy Machireddy , Partha Pakray , Chukhu Chunka

Text classification is one of the most widely studied tasks in natural language processing. Motivated by the principle of compositionality, large multilayer neural network models have been employed for this task in an attempt to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Devendra Singh Sachan , Manzil Zaheer , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We explore the use of semantic word embeddings in text segmentation algorithms, including the C99 segmentation algorithm and new algorithms inspired by the distributed word vector representation. By developing a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Alexander A Alemi , Paul Ginsparg

Word segmentation, the problem of finding word boundaries in speech, is of interest for a range of tasks. Previous papers have suggested that for sequence-to-sequence models trained on tasks such as speech translation or speech recognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ramon Sanabria , Hao Tang , Sharon Goldwater

The meteoric rise in text generation capability has been accompanied by parallel growth in interest in machine-generated text detection: the capability to identify whether a given text was generated using a model or written by a person.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kevin Stowe , Svetlana Afanaseva , Rodolfo Raimundo , Yitao Sun , Kailash Patil

Reading and understanding code are fundamental skills for novice programmers, and especially important with the growing prevalence of AI-generated code and the need to evaluate its accuracy and reliability. ``Explain in Plain English''…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David H. Smith , Max Fowler , Paul Denny , Craig Zilles

Text detection and segmentation is an important prerequisite for many content based image analysis tasks. The paper proposes a novel text extraction and character segmentation algorithm using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions as basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Nitigya Sambyal , Pawanesh Abrol

There exist several methods of calculating a similarity curve, or a sequence of similarity values, representing the lexical cohesion of successive text constituents, e.g., paragraphs. Methods for deciding the locations of fragment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Oskari Heinonen

Semantic segmentation was seen as a challenging computer vision problem few years ago. Due to recent advancements in deep learning, relatively accurate solutions are now possible for its use in automated driving. In this paper, the semantic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Mennatullah Siam , Sara Elkerdawy , Martin Jagersand , Senthil Yogamani

Iterative text revision improves text quality by fixing grammatical errors, rephrasing for better readability or contextual appropriateness, or reorganizing sentence structures throughout a document. Most recent research has focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zae Myung Kim , Wanyu Du , Vipul Raheja , Dhruv Kumar , Dongyeop Kang

Language is highly structured, with syntactic and semantic structures, to some extent, agreed upon by speakers of the same language. With implicit or explicit awareness of such structures, humans can learn and use language efficiently and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Freda Shi

Text segmentation is a prerequisite in many real-world text-related tasks, e.g., text style transfer, and scene text removal. However, facing the lack of high-quality datasets and dedicated investigations, this critical prerequisite has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xingqian Xu , Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Brian Price , Zhonghao Wang , Humphrey Shi

We propose a new method for evaluating the readability of simplified sentences through pair-wise ranking. The validity of the method is established through in-corpus and cross-corpus evaluation experiments. The approach correctly identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Sowmya Vajjala , Detmar Meurers

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years, they still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify the target objects before executing visual recognition tasks. Such systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Yuhui Yuan , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia