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One of the components of natural language processing that has received a lot of investigation recently is semantic textual similarity. In computational linguistics and natural language processing, assessing the semantic similarity of words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mohammad Abdous , Poorya Piroozfar , Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli

Kurdish Sign Language (KuSL) is the natural language of the Kurdish Deaf people. We work on automatic translation between spoken Kurdish and KuSL. Sign languages evolve rapidly and follow grammatical rules that differ from spoken languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zina Kamal , Hossein Hassani

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is the basis of many applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our system combines convolution and recurrent neural networks to measure the semantic similarity of sentences. It uses a convolution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Elvys Linhares Pontes , Stéphane Huet , Andréa Carneiro Linhares , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

Semantic textual similarity (STS) is a fundamental NLP task that measures the semantic similarity between a pair of sentences. In order to reduce the inherent ambiguity posed from the sentences, a recent work called Conditional STS (C-STS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jingxuan Tu , Keer Xu , Liulu Yue , Bingyang Ye , Kyeongmin Rim , James Pustejovsky

We present KUTED, a speech-to-text translation (S2TT) dataset for Central Kurdish, derived from TED and TEDx talks. The corpus comprises 91,000 sentence pairs, including 170 hours of English audio, 1.65 million English tokens, and 1.40…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mohammad Mohammadamini , Daban Q. Jaff , Josep Crego , Marie Tahon , Antoine Laurent

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) measures the meaning similarity of sentences. Applications include machine translation (MT), summarization, generation, question answering (QA), short answer grading, semantic search, dialog and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Daniel Cer , Mona Diab , Eneko Agirre , Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio , Lucia Specia

Semantic textual similarity (STS), a cornerstone task in NLP, measures the degree of similarity between a pair of sentences, and has broad application in fields such as information retrieval and natural language understanding. However,…

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the essential applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is also an instrument that plays a significant role in many other NLP applications, such as Machine Translation (MT), Information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Sazan Salar , Hossein Hassani

Measuring the semantic similarity between two sentences (or Semantic Textual Similarity - STS) is fundamental in many NLP applications. Despite the remarkable results in supervised settings with adequate labeling, little attention has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Xin Tang , Shanbo Cheng , Loc Do , Zhiyu Min , Feng Ji , Heng Yu , Ji Zhang , Haiqin Chen

The wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled a wide range of applications leveraging EHR data. However, the meaningful use of EHR data largely depends on our ability to efficiently extract and consolidate information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yanshan Wang , Naveed Afzal , Sunyang Fu , Liwei Wang , Feichen Shen , Majid Rastegar-Mojarad , Hongfang Liu

This work contributes towards balancing the inclusivity and global applicability of natural language processing techniques by proposing the first 'name entity recognition' dataset for Kurdish Sorani, a low-resource and under-represented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bakhtawar Abdalla , Rebwar Mala Nabi , Hassan Eshkiki , Fabio Caraffini

This paper enhances the study of sentiment analysis for the Central Kurdish language by integrating the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) into Natural Language Processing techniques. Kurdish is a low-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kozhin muhealddin Awlla , Hadi Veisi , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) is a crucial component of many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. However, existing approaches typically reduce semantic nuances to a single score, limiting interpretability. To address this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Diego Miguel Lozano , Daryna Dementieva , Alexander Fraser

Extracting concise information from scientific documents aids learners, researchers, and practitioners. Automatic Text Summarization (ATS), a key Natural Language Processing (NLP) application, automates this process. While ATS methods exist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Rondik Hadi Abdulrahman , Hossein Hassani

Idiom detection using Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized process of recognizing figurative expressions within a text that convey meanings beyond the literal interpretation of the words. While idiom detection has seen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Skala Kamaran Omer , Hossein Hassani

- The field of natural language processing (NLP) has dramatically expanded within the last decade. Many human-being applications are conducted daily via NLP tasks, starting from machine translation, speech recognition, text generation and…

Measuring Sentence Textual Similarity (STS) is a classic task that can be applied to many downstream NLP applications such as text generation and retrieval. In this paper, we focus on unsupervised STS that works on various domains but only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zihao Wang , Jiaheng Dou , Yong Zhang

Nowadays, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an important tool for most people's daily life routines, ranging from understanding speech, translation, named entity recognition (NER), and text categorization, to generative text models such…

Natural language inference (NLI) and semantic textual similarity (STS) are key tasks in natural language understanding (NLU). Although several benchmark datasets for those tasks have been released in English and a few other languages, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jiyeon Ham , Yo Joong Choe , Kyubyong Park , Ilji Choi , Hyungjoon Soh

Semantic textual similarity (STS) systems are designed to encode and evaluate the semantic similarity between words, phrases, sentences, and documents. One method for assessing the quality or authenticity of semantic information encoded in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Kimberly Glasgow , Matthew Roos , Amy Haufler , Mark Chevillet , Michael Wolmetz
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