QUACKIE creates a new benchmark for NLP interpretability.
problem Evaluating NLP interpretability methods is challenging due to biased ground truths.
method Formulated a custom classification task from question-answering datasets, generating unbiased ground truths.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of current interpretability methods on the new benchmark.
We introduce HUBERT which combines the structured-representational power of Tensor-Product Representations (TPRs) and BERT, a pre-trained bidirectional Transformer language model. We show that there is shared structure between different NLP datasets that HUBERT, but not BERT, is able to learn and leverage. We validate …
Survey on using large models to train smaller datasets in NLP.
problem Lack of large datasets and computing resources for NLP tasks.
method Analysis of recent transfer learning approaches in NLP.
result Increased demand for transfer learning in NLP due to large models.
SusGen-GPT improves financial NLP and ESG report generation.
problem Lack of advanced NLP tools for finance and ESG domains.
method Developed SusGen-30K dataset and SusGen-GPT models.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in financial NLP tasks.
Study shows fairness metrics are unreliable for small datasets in NLP tasks.
problem Unreliable fairness metrics for small datasets in NLP tasks.
method Experiments on Bios dataset with varying model sizes.
result Common fairness indices provide unreliable results for small samples.
A benchmark for NLP models trained on text datasets.
problem Limited access to high-performance clusters for NAS experiments.
method Created a search space for recurrent neural networks on text datasets and trained 14k architectures.
result Demonstrated the potential of precomputed NAS results for NLP.
The paper uses geometry to assess how hard examples are for NLP models.
problem Challenges in NLP datasets and classifiers, especially with shallow features.
method Information geometry to quantify example difficulty, exploring BERT, CNN, and fasttext.
result Deep learning models are vulnerable to word substitutions in difficult examples.
Cryptonite tests NLP models with cryptic crossword clues.
problem Ambiguity in language poses a challenge for NLP models.
method Cryptic crossword dataset based on cryptic clues.
result Fine-tuning T5-Large on Cryptonite achieves only 7.6% accuracy.
SCROLLS benchmarks long text NLP tasks, improving existing models.
problem Short NLP benchmarks ignore long texts; SCROLLS addresses this.
method Handpicked long-text datasets for summarization, QA, and inference tasks.
result Improvement potential on SCROLLS tasks, as indicated by initial baselines.
Recent years have witnessed the rising popularity of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and related fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Many online courses and resources are available even for those without a strong background in the field. Often the student is curious about a specific…
This paper presents a deep-learning based traffic classification method for identifying multiple streaming video sources at the same time within an encrypted tunnel. The work defines a novel feature inspired by Natural Language Processing (NLP) that allows existing NLP techniques to help the traffic classification. The…
Model generates label-dependent paraphrases for NLP tasks.
problem Generating semantically different paraphrases for NLP tasks.
method Deep variational model with label-dependent generation.
result Model improves generative power of paraphrasing models.
Study uses LLMs and NLP to analyze 14,342 algorithmic trading papers.
problem Analyzing the vast literature on algorithmic trading.
method Filtering and analyzing 136 million papers, comparing traditional and modern methods.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of LLMs in refining and answering complex questions.
In this paper we consider the problem of Gaussian process classifier (GPC) model selection with different Leave-One-Out (LOO) Cross Validation (CV) based optimization criteria and provide a practical algorithm using LOO predictive distributions with such criteria to select hyperparameters. Apart from the standard avera…
We address the problem of graph classification based only on structural information. Inspired by natural language processing techniques (NLP), our model sequentially embeds information to estimate class membership probabilities. Besides, we experiment with NLP-like variational regularization techniques, making the mode…
COCKATIEL explains neural net models on NLP tasks by identifying meaningful concepts.
problem Transformer models are complex and hard to interpret.
method COCKATIEL uses NMF and sensitivity analysis to identify and rank concepts used by the model.
result COCKATIEL provides accurate and meaningful explanations without affecting model performance.
Recent Transformer-based contextual word representations, including BERT and XLNet, have shown state-of-the-art performance in multiple disciplines within NLP. Fine-tuning the trained contextual models on task-specific datasets has been the key to achieving superior performance downstream. While fine-tuning these pre-t…
Method estimates dataset utility via minimal program length proxy.
problem Determining if data labels are generated by useful subroutines.
method Rissanen Data Analysis (RDA) estimates minimum description length (MDL) as a proxy.
result Method reveals dataset characteristics and utility in various NLP settings.
Learning representations which remain invariant to a nuisance factor has a great interest in Domain Adaptation, Transfer Learning, and Fair Machine Learning. Finding such representations becomes highly challenging in NLP tasks since the nuisance factor is entangled in a raw text. To our knowledge, a major issue is also…
Inductive transfer learning has greatly impacted computer vision, but existing approaches in NLP still require task-specific modifications and training from scratch. We propose Universal Language Model Fine-tuning (ULMFiT), an effective transfer learning method that can be applied to any task in NLP, and introduce tech…
This study uses NLP to detect financial risks from documents.
problem Detecting and predicting financial risks in documents.
method NLP model design, text preprocessing, feature extraction, machine learning.
result NLP model effectively identifies and predicts financial risks.
FairLangProc simplifies fairness in NLP models for Python users.
problem Addressing bias in NLP models for decision-making contexts.
method Develops a Python package for implementing fairness metrics and algorithms.
result Promotes the use of bias mitigation techniques in NLP.
Question semantic similarity (Q2Q) is a challenging task that is very useful in many NLP applications, such as detecting duplicate questions and question answering systems. In this paper, we present the results and findings of the shared task (Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic). The task was organized as part of t…
Paper uses NLP and IRT to score ESG factors from news articles.
problem Lack of precise ESG metrics in finance.
method Combines NLP and IRT models on ESG-related news data.
result Method offers more precise ESG metrics with temporal dynamics.
AFTER technique improves NLP models by preventing overfitting to task-specific domains.
problem Standard fine-tuning degrades pretraining domain representations.
method Complements task-specific loss with adversarial objective.
result AFTER leads to improved performance on various NLP tasks.
Improved language model for French clinical reports achieves state-of-the-art performance in medical NLP tasks.
problem Lack of specialized language models for French clinical reports.
method Adapted a general pre-trained language model (CamemBERT) to French clinical reports using a corpus of 21M reports.
result Pretrained and fine-tuned models improved F1-score by 3 percentage points on APMed task.
TX-Ray analyzes and quantifies model knowledge transfer in NLP.
problem Insufficient methods for explaining and quantifying model knowledge transfer in NLP.
method Modified computer vision explainability principle to NLP, visualizing feature preference distributions.
result TX-Ray reveals how self-supervised models learn linguistic abstractions and improves generalization.
Study on noise models for noisy labels in NLP.
problem Quality of noise models from noisy labels.
method Theoretical analysis and synthetic dataset creation.
result Expected error of noise models derived.
Survey of financial LLMs in finance.
problem Limited research on Financial LLMs (FinLLMs).
method Chronological overview of PLMs, comparison of techniques, performance evaluations, and advanced tasks.
result Compilation of accessible datasets and benchmarks for AI research in finance.
New measure corrects news bias in NLP stock return forecasting.
problem Improving stock return and volatility forecasting accuracy.
method Hype-Adjusted Probability Measure, sentiment score equation.
result Significantly improved forecast accuracy for U.S. semiconductor tickers.
This paper analyzes crypto white papers under MiCAR, highlighting NLP's role.
problem Regulatory changes in crypto white papers under MiCAR.
method Survey of existing NLP applications, analysis of MiCAR changes.
result NLP can assist in regulatory compliance and white paper analysis.
This paper improves NLP interpretability by using sentence segments instead of words.
problem Limitations of word-based sampling in explaining complex BERT models.
method Using sentence segments as elementary building blocks for NLP interpretability.
result Improved fidelity of the explainer on a benchmark classification task.
RoBERTa outperforms other pre-trained models in NER tasks.
problem Improving Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance.
method Fine-tuning four pre-trained models (BERT, ERNIE, ERNIE2.0-tiny, RoBERTa) on NER task.
result RoBERTa achieved state-of-the-art results on MSRA-2006 dataset.
Improved financial sentiment analysis using LLMs with retrieval augmentation.
problem Limited performance of traditional NLP models in financial sentiment analysis.
method Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) with instruction tuning.
result Achieved 15% to 48% performance gain in accuracy and F1 score.
MDA optimizer performs similarly to SGD+M in CV and Adam in NLP.
problem Performance degradation due to choosing the wrong optimizer.
method Modernized Dual Averaging (MDA) optimizer, inspired by dual averaging.
result MDA performs as well as SGD+M in CV and as Adam in NLP.
We consider the extreme multi-label text classification (XMC) problem: given an input text, return the most relevant labels from a large label collection. For example, the input text could be a product description on Amazon.com and the labels could be product categories. XMC is an important yet challenging problem in t…
The study enhances financial rule matching using NLP without datasets.
problem Performing semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
method Outperforming pre-trained models with NLP techniques using free resources.
result Improved semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
Researchers develop method to protect against 'weight poisoning' attacks on pre-trained models.
problem The security threat of downloading untrusted pre-trained weights that can be manipulated after fine-tuning.
method RIPPLe regularization method and Embedding Surgery initialization procedure.
result Demonstrated that weight poisoning attacks are possible even with limited knowledge of the dataset and fine-tuning procedure.
Generative model evaluates text emotion intensity, outperforming classification.
problem Limitations of discrete emotion classification in applied domains.
method Fine-tuning generative language models to output continuous emotion intensity scores.
result Generative model outperforms classification baselines and reveals generalization capabilities.
New pruning method retains model expressiveness for NLP tasks.
problem Pruning large pretrained transformer models for real-world deployment.
method Mixture Gaussian Prior Pruning (MGPP) algorithm.
result MGPP outperforms existing pruning methods in high sparsity settings.
This thesis identifies share buybacks and predicts their impact on stock performance.
problem Recognizing and predicting the impact of share buybacks on stock performance.
method NLP approaches for automated detection of share buybacks, machine learning models for prediction.
result Most companies underperform after a share buyback, but some significantly outperform.
BERT outperforms traditional machine learning in text classification tasks.
problem Comparing BERT to traditional machine learning methods for text classification.
method Empirical testing of BERT against TF-IDF-based machine learning models in various scenarios.
result BERT demonstrates superior performance and independence from text features.
Hungarian text processing improved with efficient, accurate NLP pipelines.
problem Improving text processing for Hungarian language.
method Implemented in spaCy framework, focusing on efficiency and accuracy.
result Near state-of-the-art performance in all text preprocessing steps.
HuSpaCy offers an industrial-grade Hungarian NLP toolkit.
problem Lack of suitable open-source Hungarian NLP pipelines.
method Built on spaCy, HuSpaCy includes lemmatization, morphosyntactic analysis, entity recognition, and word embeddings.
result HuSpaCy achieves high accuracy with resource-efficient prediction.
The Hype Index measures media attention to equities using NLP.
problem Quantifying media attention to equities for volatility analysis.
method Constructs News Count-Based and Capitalization Adjusted Hype Indices using NLP.
result The Hype Index family provides valuable tools for stock volatility analysis.
Neural embeddings have been used with great success in Natural Language Processing (NLP). They provide compact representations that encapsulate word similarity and attain state-of-the-art performance in a range of linguistic tasks. The success of neural embeddings has prompted significant amounts of research into appli…
The paper improves cryptocurrency price forecasting using deep learning and NLP on financial, blockchain, and social media data.
problem Improving cryptocurrency price forecasting accuracy and profitability.
method Integrates financial, blockchain, and social media data; applies BART MNLI model for sentiment analysis; uses deep learning NLP models; compares with traditional methods; uses local extrema as predictive targets.
result Significantly improves forecasting accuracy and profitability of cryptocurrency price predictions.
This study uses NLP to predict stock performance based on analyst reports.
problem Predicting stock performance using textual information from analyst reports.
method Natural language processing (NLP) and a customized BERT deep learning model for Chinese text.
result Strong positive sentiment in analyst reports increases excess return and intraday volatility, while strong negative sentiment increases volatility and trading volume but decreases excess return.