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Over the recent years, large pretrained language models (LM) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, while pretraining on general language has been shown to work very well for common language, it has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nicolas Webersinke , Mathias Kraus , Julia Anna Bingler , Markus Leippold

Encoder-based transformer models are central to biomedical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP), as their bidirectional self-attention makes them well-suited for efficiently extracting structured information from unstructured text…

Recent innovations in architecture, pre-training, and fine-tuning have led to the remarkable in-context learning and reasoning abilities of large auto-regressive language models such as LLaMA and DeepSeek. In contrast, encoders like BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lola Le Breton , Quentin Fournier , Mariam El Mezouar , John X. Morris , Sarath Chandar

Language models like BERT and SpanBERT pretrained on open-domain data have obtained impressive gains on various NLP tasks. In this paper, we probe the effectiveness of domain-adaptive pretraining objectives on downstream tasks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Han Wu , Kun Xu , Linfeng Song , Lifeng Jin , Haisong Zhang , Linqi Song

The rise of pre-trained language models has yielded substantial progress in the vast majority of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, a generic approach towards the pre-training procedure can naturally be sub-optimal in some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Entony Lekhtman , Yftah Ziser , Roi Reichart

Massively multilingual language models such as multilingual BERT offer state-of-the-art cross-lingual transfer performance on a range of NLP tasks. However, due to limited capacity and large differences in pretraining data sizes, there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jonas Pfeiffer , Ivan Vulić , Iryna Gurevych , Sebastian Ruder

In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) models have achieved phenomenal success in linguistic and semantic tasks like text classification, machine translation, cognitive dialogue systems, information retrieval via Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Sushant Singh , Ausif Mahmood

Objective: Clinical knowledge enriched transformer models (e.g., ClinicalBERT) have state-of-the-art results on clinical NLP (natural language processing) tasks. One of the core limitations of these transformer models is the substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yikuan Li , Ramsey M. Wehbe , Faraz S. Ahmad , Hanyin Wang , Yuan Luo

Deep learning approaches are superior in NLP due to their ability to extract informative features and patterns from languages. The two most successful neural architectures are LSTM and transformers, used in large pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Matej Klemen , Luka Krsnik , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Domain-specific contextualized language models have demonstrated substantial effectiveness gains for domain-specific downstream tasks, like similarity matching, entity recognition or information retrieval. However successfully applying such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Sophia Althammer , Mark Buckley , Sebastian Hofstätter , Allan Hanbury

Previous work on document-level NMT usually focuses on limited contexts because of degraded performance on larger contexts. In this paper, we investigate on using large contexts with three main contributions: (1) Different from previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

The introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs), and the vast volume of publicly available medical data, amplified the application of NLP to the medical domain. However, LLMs are pretrained on data that are not explicitly relevant to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Chris Solomou

Pretraining large neural language models, such as BERT, has led to impressive gains on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most pretraining efforts focus on general domain corpora, such as newswire and Web. A prevailing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yu Gu , Robert Tinn , Hao Cheng , Michael Lucas , Naoto Usuyama , Xiaodong Liu , Tristan Naumann , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

Recently, the pre-trained language model, BERT (and its robustly optimized version RoBERTa), has attracted a lot of attention in natural language understanding (NLU), and achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in various NLU tasks, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Wei Wang , Bin Bi , Ming Yan , Chen Wu , Zuyi Bao , Jiangnan Xia , Liwei Peng , Luo Si

Obtaining large-scale annotated data for NLP tasks in the scientific domain is challenging and expensive. We release SciBERT, a pretrained language model based on BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) to address the lack of high-quality, large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Iz Beltagy , Kyle Lo , Arman Cohan

The surge of pre-trained language models has begun a new era in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) by allowing us to build powerful language models. Among these models, Transformer-based models such as BERT have become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mehrdad Farahani , Mohammad Gharachorloo , Marzieh Farahani , Mohammad Manthouri

Transformer-based pre-trained language models, such as BERT, achieve great success in various natural language understanding tasks. Prior research found that BERT captures a rich hierarchy of linguistic information at different layers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Qinglin Zhang , Chong Deng , Ma Yukun , Siqi Zheng

Transformer-based language models, such as BERT and its variants, have achieved state-of-the-art performance in several downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks on generic benchmark datasets (e.g., GLUE, SQUAD, RACE). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-04 John Koutsikakis , Ilias Chalkidis , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Ion Androutsopoulos

Pre-trained large-scale language models have increasingly demonstrated high accuracy on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the limited weight storage and computational speed on hardware platforms have impeded the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Wei Niu , Zhenglun Kong , Geng Yuan , Weiwen Jiang , Jiexiong Guan , Caiwen Ding , Pu Zhao , Sijia Liu , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Lately, pre-trained language models advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP). The introduction of Bidirectional Encoders for Transformers (BERT) and its optimized version RoBERTa have had significant impact and increased the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Raphael Scheible , Fabian Thomczyk , Patric Tippmann , Victor Jaravine , Martin Boeker