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Multimodal sarcasm detection has recently garnered significant attention. However, existing benchmarks suffer from coarse-grained annotations and limited cultural coverage, which hinder research into fine-grained semantic understanding. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junzhao Zhang , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Chenming Tang , Yutong Yang , Yunfang Wu

We investigate the problem of Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) and present a new framework named Tail-to-Tail (\textbf{TtT}) non-autoregressive sequence prediction to address the deep issues hidden in CGEC. Considering that most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Piji Li , Shuming Shi

Toxic Spans Detection(TSD) task is defined as highlighting spans that make a text toxic. Many works have been done to classify a given comment or document as toxic or non-toxic. However, none of those proposed models work at the token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hamed Babaei Giglou , Taher Rahgooy , Mostafa Rahgouy , Jafar Razmara

Augmenting toxic language data in a controllable and class-specific manner is crucial for improving robustness in toxicity classification, yet remains challenging due to limited supervision and distributional skew. We propose ToxiGAN, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Peiran Li , Jan Fillies , Adrian Paschke

This paper describes our approach to the Toxic Spans Detection problem (SemEval-2021 Task 5). We propose BERToxic, a system that fine-tunes a pre-trained BERT model to locate toxic text spans in a given text and utilizes additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Yakoob Khan , Weicheng Ma , Soroush Vosoughi

Toxic language includes content that is offensive, abusive, or that promotes harm. Progress in preventing toxic output from large language models (LLMs) is hampered by inconsistent definitions of toxicity. We introduce TRuST, a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Berk Atil , Namrata Sureddy , Rebecca J. Passonneau

Toxicity detection has become core safety infrastructure for online moderation, dataset filtering, and deployed language-model systems. Yet most detectors still treat toxicity as an intrinsic property of isolated text. This position paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sergei Berezin , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Recent pretraining models in Chinese neglect two important aspects specific to the Chinese language: glyph and pinyin, which carry significant syntax and semantic information for language understanding. In this work, we propose ChineseBERT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Zijun Sun , Xiaoya Li , Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Qing He , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Research on harmful meme detection has garnered significant attention, resulting in the development of numerous datasets and methods. However, progress in detecting Chinese harmful memes lags considerably, primarily due to two challenges:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weiming Wang , Junyu Lu , Han Wang , Xiaokun Zhang , Zewen Bai , Bo Xu , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Chinese sequence labeling tasks are heavily reliant on accurate word boundary demarcation. Although current pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved substantial gains on these tasks, they rarely explicitly incorporate boundary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Longhui Zhang , Dingkun Long , Meishan Zhang , Yanzhao Zhang , Pengjun Xie , Min Zhang

With the rapid development of Large language models (LLMs), understanding the capabilities of LLMs in identifying unsafe content has become increasingly important. While previous works have introduced several benchmarks to evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hengxiang Zhang , Hongfu Gao , Qiang Hu , Guanhua Chen , Lili Yang , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei , Bing Wang , Haifeng Bai , Lei Yang

With the success of down streaming task using English pre-trained language model, the pre-trained Chinese language model is also necessary to get a better performance of Chinese NLP task. Unlike the English language, Chinese has its special…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Chao Lv , Han Zhang , XinKai Du , Yunhao Zhang , Ying Huang , Wenhao Li , Jia Han , Shanshan Gu

Biased associations have been a challenge in the development of classifiers for detecting toxic language, hindering both fairness and accuracy. As potential solutions, we investigate recently introduced debiasing methods for text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xuhui Zhou , Maarten Sap , Swabha Swayamdipta , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to identify the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Inspired by the strong correlation between syntax and semantics, previous works pay much attention to improve SRL performance on exploiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qingrong Xia , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang

The ambiguous annotation criteria lead to divergence of Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) datasets in various granularities. Multi-criteria Chinese word segmentation aims to capture various annotation criteria among datasets and leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Weipeng Huang , Xingyi Cheng , Kunlong Chen , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu

Pre-trained models have achieved success in Chinese Short Text Matching (STM) tasks, but they often rely on superficial clues, leading to a lack of robust predictions. To address this issue, it is crucial to analyze and mitigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yanrui Du , Sendong Zhao , Yuhan Chen , Rai Bai , Jing Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Bing Qin

Patronizing and Condescending Language (PCL) is a form of discriminatory toxic speech targeting vulnerable groups, threatening both online and offline safety. While toxic speech research has mainly focused on overt toxicity, such as hate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Hongbo Wang , Junyu Lu , Yan Han , Kai Ma , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Current methods of toxic language detection (TLD) typically rely on specific tokens to conduct decisions, which makes them suffer from lexical bias, leading to inferior performance and generalization. Lexical bias has both "useful" and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Junyu Lu , Bo Xu , Xiaokun Zhang , Kaiyuan Liu , Dongyu Zhang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional performance but pose inherent risks of generating toxic content, restricting their safe deployment. While traditional methods (e.g., alignment) adjust output preferences, they fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zenghao Duan , Zhiyi Yin , Zhichao Shi , Liang Pang , Shaoling Jing , Zihe Huang , Jiayi Wu , Yu Yan , Jingcheng Deng , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Toxicity classification for voice heavily relies on the semantic content of speech. We propose a novel framework that utilizes cross-modal learning to integrate the semantic embedding of text into a multilabel speech toxicity classifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Joseph Liu , Mahesh Kumar Nandwana , Janne Pylkkönen , Hannes Heikinheimo , Morgan McGuire