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Multi-layer models with multiple attention heads per layer provide superior translation quality compared to simpler and shallower models, but determining what source context is most relevant to each target word is more challenging as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Thomas Zenkel , Joern Wuebker , John DeNero

Semantic textual similarity is the task of estimating the similarity between the meaning of two texts. In this paper, we fine-tune transformer architectures for semantic textual similarity on the Semantic Textual Similarity Benchmark by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ivan Rep , Vladimir Čeperić

Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved remarkable results in Semantic Sentence Matching. However, existing models still suffer from insufficient ability to capture subtle differences. Minor noise like word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sirui Wang , Di Liang , Jian Song , Yuntao Li , Wei Wu

We propose Pixel-BERT to align image pixels with text by deep multi-modal transformers that jointly learn visual and language embedding in a unified end-to-end framework. We aim to build a more accurate and thorough connection between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhicheng Huang , Zhaoyang Zeng , Bei Liu , Dongmei Fu , Jianlong Fu

Despite the success of fine-tuning pretrained language encoders like BERT for downstream natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, it is still poorly understood how neural networks change after fine-tuning. In this work, we use centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jason Phang , Haokun Liu , Samuel R. Bowman

Many NLP tasks have benefited from transferring knowledge from contextualized word embeddings, however the picture of what type of knowledge is transferred is incomplete. This paper studies the types of linguistic phenomena accounted for by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ieva Staliūnaitė , Ignacio Iacobacci

This paper studies the relative importance of attention heads in Transformer-based models to aid their interpretability in cross-lingual and multi-lingual tasks. Prior research has found that only a few attention heads are important in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Weicheng Ma , Kai Zhang , Renze Lou , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

Suicide is a critical global health problem involving more than 700,000 deaths yearly, particularly among young adults. Many people express their suicidal thoughts on social media platforms such as Reddit. This paper evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khalid Hasan , Jamil Saquer

The use of transfer learning methods is largely responsible for the present breakthrough in Natural Learning Processing (NLP) tasks across multiple domains. In order to solve the problem of sentiment detection, we examined the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Olumide Ebenezer Ojo , Hoang Thang Ta , Alexander Gelbukh , Hiram Calvo , Olaronke Oluwayemisi Adebanji , Grigori Sidorov

Adding linguistic information (syntax or semantics) to neural machine translation (NMT) has mostly focused on using point estimates from pre-trained models. Directly using the capacity of massive pre-trained contextual word embedding models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Current large language models can perform reasonably well on complex tasks that require step-by-step reasoning with few-shot learning. Are these models applying reasoning skills they have learnt during pre-training and reason outside of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ping Yu , Tianlu Wang , Olga Golovneva , Badr AlKhamissi , Siddharth Verma , Zhijing Jin , Gargi Ghosh , Mona Diab , Asli Celikyilmaz

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have exhibited remarkable performances in many tasks in natural language understanding (NLU). The tokens in the models are usually fine-grained in the sense that for languages like English they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xinsong Zhang , Pengshuai Li , Hang Li

Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness frequently underdiagnosed due to subtle early symptoms and social stigma. This paper explores the advanced natural language processing (NLP) models for recognizing signs of bipolar disorder based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Khalid Hasan , Jamil Saquer

Temporal expressions in text play a significant role in language understanding and correctly identifying them is fundamental to various retrieval and natural language processing systems. Previous works have slowly shifted from rule-based to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Satya Almasian , Dennis Aumiller , Michael Gertz

We study the problem of leveraging the syntactic structure of text to enhance pre-trained models such as BERT and RoBERTa. Existing methods utilize syntax of text either in the pre-training stage or in the fine-tuning stage, so that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zenan Xu , Daya Guo , Duyu Tang , Qinliang Su , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Wanjun Zhong , Xiaojun Quan , Nan Duan , Daxin Jiang

It is known that a deep neural network model pre-trained with large-scale data greatly improves the accuracy of various tasks, especially when there are resource constraints. However, the information needed to solve a given task can vary,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

Pre-trained language models like BERT achieve superior performances in various NLP tasks without explicit consideration of syntactic information. Meanwhile, syntactic information has been proved to be crucial for the success of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jiangang Bai , Yujing Wang , Yiren Chen , Yaming Yang , Jing Bai , Jing Yu , Yunhai Tong

Models based on BERT have been extremely successful in solving a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Unfortunately, many of these large models require a great deal of computational resources and/or time for pre-training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Anthony Sarah , Sairam Sundaresan

Since 2017, the Transformer-based models play critical roles in various downstream Natural Language Processing tasks. However, a common limitation of the attention mechanism utilized in Transformer Encoder is that it cannot automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ziyang Luo , Yadong Xi , Jing Ma , Zhiwei Yang , Xiaoxi Mao , Changjie Fan , Rongsheng Zhang

There has been significant progress in recent years in the field of Natural Language Processing thanks to the introduction of the Transformer architecture. Current state-of-the-art models, via a large number of parameters and pre-training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Carlos Aspillaga , Andrés Carvallo , Vladimir Araujo