NLP Field
Natural Language Processing (NLP) focuses on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Current research emphasizes improving model performance across diverse tasks, including question answering, text classification, and information extraction, often leveraging large language models (LLMs) and transformer architectures. These advancements are significantly impacting various fields, from healthcare (e.g., dementia detection, clinical data analysis) and legal (e.g., document processing, legal reasoning) to education and cybersecurity, by automating tasks and providing new analytical capabilities. A key challenge remains ensuring fairness, mitigating biases, and addressing privacy concerns within these powerful models.
Papers
TalkUp: Paving the Way for Understanding Empowering Language
Lucille Njoo, Chan Young Park, Octavia Stappart, Marvin Thielk, Yi Chu, Yulia Tsvetkov
LIMIT: Language Identification, Misidentification, and Translation using Hierarchical Models in 350+ Languages
Milind Agarwal, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Interactive Natural Language Processing
Zekun Wang, Ge Zhang, Kexin Yang, Ning Shi, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shaochun Hao, Guangzheng Xiong, Yizhi Li, Mong Yuan Sim, Xiuying Chen, Qingqing Zhu, Zhenzhu Yang, Adam Nik, Qi Liu, Chenghua Lin, Shi Wang, Ruibo Liu, Wenhu Chen, Ke Xu, Dayiheng Liu, Yike Guo, Jie Fu
A Diachronic Analysis of Paradigm Shifts in NLP Research: When, How, and Why?
Aniket Pramanick, Yufang Hou, Saif M. Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych
This Prompt is Measuring <MASK>: Evaluating Bias Evaluation in Language Models
Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Eddie Ungless, Esma Balkir, Su Lin Blodgett
Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP
Anya Belz, Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter, Gavin Abercrombie, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Mohammad Arvan, Anouck Braggaar, Mark Cieliebak, Elizabeth Clark, Kees van Deemter, Tanvi Dinkar, Ondřej Dušek, Steffen Eger, Qixiang Fang, Mingqi Gao, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, Javier González-Corbelle, Dirk Hovy, Manuela Hürlimann, Takumi Ito, John D. Kelleher, Filip Klubicka, Emiel Krahmer, Huiyuan Lai, Chris van der Lee, Yiru Li, Saad Mahamood, Margot Mieskes, Emiel van Miltenburg, Pablo Mosteiro, Malvina Nissim, Natalie Parde, Ondřej Plátek, Verena Rieser, Jie Ruan, Joel Tetreault, Antonio Toral, Xiaojun Wan, Leo Wanner, Lewis Watson, Diyi Yang
From Local to Global: Navigating Linguistic Diversity in the African Context
Rashmi Margani, Nelson Ndugu