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Paraphrase generation is a pivotal task in natural language processing (NLP). Existing datasets in the domain lack syntactic and lexical diversity, resulting in paraphrases that closely resemble the source sentences. Moreover, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lasal Jayawardena , Prasan Yapa

Modern machine learning relies on datasets to develop and validate research ideas. Given the growth of publicly available data, finding the right dataset to use is increasingly difficult. Any research question imposes explicit and implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vijay Viswanathan , Luyu Gao , Tongshuang Wu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Incorporating linguistic, world and common sense knowledge into AI/NLP systems is currently an important research area, with several open problems and challenges. At the same time, processing and storing this knowledge in lexical resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jose Camacho-Collados , Luis Espinosa-Anke , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Since long, corporations are looking for knowledge sources which can provide structured description of data and can focus on meaning and shared understanding. Structures which can facilitate open world assumptions and can be flexible enough…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Iti Mathur , Nisheeth Joshi , Hemant Darbari , Ajai Kumar

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages remains fundamentally constrained by the lack of textual corpora, standardized orthographies, and scalable annotation pipelines. While recent advances in large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bonaventure F. P. Dossou , Henri Aïdasso

Large-scale datasets are foundational for research and development in natural language processing. However, current approaches face three key challenges: (1) reliance on ambiguously licensed sources restricting use, sharing, and derivative…

High-quality datasets are typically required for accomplishing data-driven tasks, such as training medical diagnosis models, predicting real-time traffic conditions, or conducting experiments to validate research hypotheses. Consequently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pengyue Li , Sheng Wang , Hua Dai , Zhiyu Chen , Zhifeng Bao , Brian D. Davison

Contemporary research on computational processing of linguistic metaphors is divided into two main branches: metaphor recognition and metaphor interpretation. We take a different line of research and present an automated method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Ekaterina Ovchinnikova , Vladimir Zaytsev , Suzanne Wertheim , Ross Israel

We apply an approach from cognitive linguistics by mapping Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to the visualization domain to address patterns of visual conceptual metaphors that are often used in science infographics. Metaphors play an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hana Pokojná , Tobias Isenberg , Stefan Bruckner , Barbora Kozlíková , Laura Garrison

A major challenge in paraphrase research is the lack of parallel corpora. In this paper, we present a new method to collect large-scale sentential paraphrases from Twitter by linking tweets through shared URLs. The main advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Wuwei Lan , Siyu Qiu , Hua He , Wei Xu

Identifying metaphors in text is very challenging and requires comprehending the underlying comparison. The automation of this cognitive process has gained wide attention lately. However, the majority of existing approaches concentrate on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Omnia Zayed , John P. McCrae , Paul Buitelaar

Metaphor and humor share a lot of common ground, and metaphor is one of the most common humorous mechanisms. This study focuses on the humorous capacity of multimodal metaphors, which has not received due attention in the community. We take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoyu Tong , Zhi Zhang , Pia Sommerauer , Martha Lewis , Ekaterina Shutova

The selection, development, or comparison of machine learning methods in data mining can be a difficult task based on the target problem and goals of a particular study. Numerous publicly available real-world and simulated benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Randal S. Olson , William La Cava , Patryk Orzechowski , Ryan J. Urbanowicz , Jason H. Moore

We introduce Dynabench, an open-source platform for dynamic dataset creation and model benchmarking. Dynabench runs in a web browser and supports human-and-model-in-the-loop dataset creation: annotators seek to create examples that a target…

As language data and associated technologies proliferate and as the language resources community expands, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate and reuse existing resources. Are there any lexical resources for such-and-such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Steven Bird , Gary Simons

Multilinguality is gradually becoming ubiquitous in the sense that more and more researchers have successfully shown that using additional languages help improve the results in many Natural Language Processing tasks. Multilingual Multiway…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Raj Dabre , Sadao Kurohashi

Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for languages that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Edoardo Maria Ponti , Helen O'Horan , Yevgeni Berzak , Ivan Vulić , Roi Reichart , Thierry Poibeau , Ekaterina Shutova , Anna Korhonen

With the recent progress in machine learning, boosted by techniques such as deep learning, many tasks can be successfully solved once a large enough dataset is available for training. Nonetheless, human-annotated datasets are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Daniel Specht Menezes , Pedro Savarese , Ruy Luiz Milidiú

Metaphors have been used during therapy sessions to facilitate the communication of inner feelings between clients and therapists. Can we create a digital metaphorical chatting space for daily use within close relationships? As the first…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Chen Ji , Katherine Isbister

As a contribution to metaphor analysis, we introduce a statistical, data-based investigation with empirical analysis of long-standing conjectures and a first-ever empirical exploration of the systematic features of metaphors. Conversely,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Marie Teich , Wilmer Leal , Juergen Jost