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Text structuralization is one of the important fields of natural language processing (NLP) consists of information extraction (IE) and structure formalization. However, current studies of text structuralization suffer from a shortage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xuanfan Ni , Piji Li , Huayang Li

Most current work in NLP utilizes deep learning, which requires a lot of training data and computational power. This paper investigates the strengths of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for extractive summarization, as we hypothesized that GAs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 William Chen , Kensal Ramos , Kalyan Naidu Mullaguri , Annie S. Wu

Recent breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been driven by language models trained on a massive amount of plain text. While powerful, deriving supervision from textual resources is still an open question. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Mingda Chen

It is presented here a machine learning-based (ML) natural language processing (NLP) approach capable to automatically recognize and extract categorical and numerical parameters from a corpus of articles. The approach (named a.RIX) operates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Amauri J Paula

We introduce a new task of entailment relation aware paraphrase generation which aims at generating a paraphrase conforming to a given entailment relation (e.g. equivalent, forward entailing, or reverse entailing) with respect to a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Abhilasha Sancheti , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Rachel Rudinger

The rapid progress of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies has led to the widespread availability and effectiveness of text generation tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. While highly useful, these technologies also pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chao Zhou , Cheng Qiu , Lizhen Liang , Daniel E. Acuna

Recently, it has been shown that the incorporation of structured knowledge into Large Language Models significantly improves the results for a variety of NLP tasks. In this paper, we propose a method for exploring pre-trained Text-to-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Mikhail Salnikov , Hai Le , Prateek Rajput , Irina Nikishina , Pavel Braslavski , Valentin Malykh , Alexander Panchenko

We consider the problem of learning general-purpose, paraphrastic sentence embeddings in the setting of Wieting et al. (2016b). We use neural machine translation to generate sentential paraphrases via back-translation of bilingual sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-07 John Wieting , Jonathan Mallinson , Kevin Gimpel

In the Humanities and Social Sciences, there is increasing interest in approaches to information extraction, prediction, intelligent linkage, and dimension reduction applicable to large text corpora. With approaches in these fields being…

Applications · Statistics 2019-04-16 Vanessa Glenny , Jonathan Tuke , Nigel Bean , Lewis Mitchell

In this paper, we present the concept of Approximate grammar and how it can be used to extract information from a documemt. As the structure of informational strings cannot be defined well in a document, we cannot use the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 V. Sriram , B. Ravi Sekar Reddy , R. Sangal

Machine comprehension plays an essential role in NLP and has been widely explored with dataset like MCTest. However, this dataset is too simple and too small for learning true reasoning abilities. \cite{hermann2015teaching} therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Tian Tian , Yuezhang Li

This paper presents a model-based, unsupervised algorithm for recovering word boundaries in a natural-language text from which they have been deleted. The algorithm is derived from a probability model of the source that generated the text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael R. Brent

NPtool is a fast and accurate system for extracting noun phrases from English texts for the purposes of e.g. information retrieval, translation unit discovery, and corpus studies. After a general introduction, the system architecture is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Atro Voutilainen

This paper explores the task of translating natural language queries into regular expressions which embody their meaning. In contrast to prior work, the proposed neural model does not utilize domain-specific crafting, learning to translate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Nicholas Locascio , Karthik Narasimhan , Eduardo DeLeon , Nate Kushman , Regina Barzilay

Paraphrase generation is an interesting and challenging NLP task which has numerous practical applications. In this paper, we analyze datasets commonly used for paraphrase generation research, and show that simply parroting input sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Hongren Mao , Hung-yi Lee

We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. First, our model estimates the probability that word sequences in a document are ones that a human would pick when selecting candidate answers by training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sandeep Subramanian , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

This paper aims to catalyze the discussions about text feature extraction techniques using neural network architectures. The research questions discussed in the paper focus on the state-of-the-art neural network techniques that have proven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Vineet John

Our research investigates how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be used to extract main topics from a larger corpus of written data, as applied to the case of identifying signaling themes in Presidential Directives (PDs) from the Reagan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 C. LeMay , A. Lane , J. Seales , M. Winstead , S. Baty

Information Extraction (IE) seeks to derive structured information from unstructured texts, often facing challenges in low-resource scenarios due to data scarcity and unseen classes. This paper presents a review of neural approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shumin Deng , Yubo Ma , Ningyu Zhang , Yixin Cao , Bryan Hooi

In this study, the output of large language models (LLM) is considered an information source generating an unlimited sequence of symbols drawn from a finite alphabet. Given the probabilistic nature of modern LLMs, we assume a probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Marco Scharringhausen