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Native language identification (NLI) is the task of training (via supervised machine learning) a classifier that guesses the native language of the author of a text. This task has been extensively researched in the last decade, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Barbara Berti , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

We present the findings of the second edition of the IQRA Interspeech Challenge, a challenge on automatic Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis (MDD) for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Building on the previous edition, this iteration…

This paper presents the methods used for LegalLens-2024 shared task, which focused on detecting legal violations within unstructured textual data and associating these violations with potentially affected individuals. The shared task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Nima Meghdadi , Diana Inkpen

This paper introduces the fifth oriental language recognition (OLR) challenge AP20-OLR, which intends to improve the performance of language recognition systems, along with APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). The data profile,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Zheng Li , Miao Zhao , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Liming Song , Cheng Yang

Arabic dialect identification (ADI) tools are an important part of the large-scale data collection pipelines necessary for training speech recognition models. As these pipelines require application of ADI tools to potentially out-of-domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

We describe SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. This year, we reran the four subtasks from SemEval-2016:(A) Question-Comment Similarity,(B) Question-Question Similarity,(C) Question-External Comment Similarity, and (D)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Preslav Nakov , Doris Hoogeveen , Lluís Màrquez , Alessandro Moschitti , Hamdy Mubarak , Timothy Baldwin , Karin Verspoor

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

Dialectal Arabic (DA) poses a persistent challenge for natural language processing (NLP), as most everyday communication in the Arab world occurs in dialects that diverge significantly from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdullah Alabdullah , Lifeng Han , Chenghua Lin

Offensive language detection is one of the most challenging problem in the natural language processing field, being imposed by the rising presence of this phenomenon in online social media. This paper describes our Transformer-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mircea-Adrian Tanase , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Costin-Gabriel Chiru

In this paper we present ensemble-based systems for dialect and language variety identification using the datasets made available by the organizers of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2018. We present a system developed to discriminate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Liviu P. Dinu , Alina Maria Ciobanu , Marcos Zampieri , Shervin Malmasi

Orthopantomogram (OPGs) and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) are vital for dentistry, but creating large datasets for automated tooth segmentation is hindered by the labor-intensive process of manual instance-level annotation. This…

In this paper, we have worked on interpretability, trust, and understanding of the decisions made by models in the form of classification tasks. The task is divided into 3 subtasks. The first task consists of determining Binary Sexism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Debashish Roy , Manish Shrivastava

This paper presents our system built for the WASSA-2024 Cross-lingual Emotion Detection Shared Task. The task consists of two subtasks: first, to assess an emotion label from six possible classes for a given tweet in one of five languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jakub Šmíd , Pavel Přibáň , Pavel Král

Arabic word segmentation is essential for a variety of NLP applications such as machine translation and information retrieval. Segmentation entails breaking words into their constituent stems, affixes and clitics. In this paper, we compare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Mohamed Eldesouki , Younes Samih , Ahmed Abdelali , Mohammed Attia , Hamdy Mubarak , Kareem Darwish , Kallmeyer Laura

Recent NLP advances focus primarily on standardized languages, leaving most low-resource dialects under-served especially in Indian scenarios. In India, the issue is particularly important: despite Hindi being the third most spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tarun Sharma , Manikandan Ravikiran , Sourava Kumar Behera , Pramit Bhattacharya , Arnab Bhattacharya , Rohit Saluja

Recent progress in neural machine translation (NMT) has made it possible to translate successfully between monolingual language pairs where large parallel data exist, with pre-trained models improving performance even further. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Entity-aware machine translation (EAMT) is a complicated task in natural language processing due to not only the shortage of translation data related to the entities needed to translate but also the complexity in the context needed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 An Trieu , Phuong Nguyen , Minh Le Nguyen

We present an overview of the SciVer shared task, presented at the 2nd Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop at NAACL 2021. In this shared task, systems were provided a scientific claim and a corpus of research abstracts, and asked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 David Wadden , Kyle Lo

Scientific Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of predicting the semantic relation between a pair of sentences extracted from research articles. The automatic annotation method based on distant supervision for the training set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mobashir Sadat , Cornelia Caragea