11 papers
The Prosody of Emojis
Giulio Zhou, Tsz Kin Lam, Alexandra Birch +1
Prosodic features such as pitch, timing, and intonation are central to spoken communication, conveying emotion, intent, and discourse structure. In text-based settings, where these…
Learning to Summarize by Learning to Quiz: Adversarial Agentic Collaboration for Long Document Summarization
Weixuan Wang, Minghao Wu, Barry Haddow +1
Long document summarization remains a significant challenge for current large language models (LLMs), as existing approaches commonly struggle with information loss, factual incons…
HBO: Hierarchical Balancing Optimization for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
Weixuan Wang, Minghao Wu, Barry Haddow +1
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on a mixture of diverse datasets poses challenges due to data imbalance and heterogeneity. Existing methods often address these issues acro…
MGen: Millions of Naturally Occurring Generics in Context
Gustavo Cilleruelo, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow +1
MGen is a dataset of over 4 million naturally occurring generic and quantified sentences extracted from diverse textual sources. Sentences in the dataset have long context document…
Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Task
Leonardo Ranaldi, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of contemporary NLP, enhancing large language models (LLMs) by allowing them to access richer factual contexts through…
Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation
Sherrie Shen, Weixuan Wang, Alexandra Birch
The faithful transfer of contextually-embedded meaning continues to challenge contemporary machine translation (MT), particularly in the rendering of culture-bound terms--expressio…