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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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17 August 2025

The review enumerates the predominant applications of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, with a particular emphasis on the years 2023 to 2025. A particular emphasis is placed on applications pertaining to informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,328 Views
17 Pages

MédicoBERT: A Medical Language Model for Spanish Natural Language Processing Tasks with a Question-Answering Application Using Hyperparameter Optimization

  • Josué Padilla Cuevas,
  • José A. Reyes-Ortiz,
  • Alma D. Cuevas-Rasgado,
  • Román A. Mora-Gutiérrez and
  • Maricela Bravo

10 August 2024

The increasing volume of medical information available in digital format presents a significant challenge for researchers seeking to extract relevant information. Manually analyzing voluminous data is a time-consuming process that constrains research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,332 Views
34 Pages

Enhancing Propaganda Detection in Arabic News Context Through Multi-Task Learning

  • Lubna Al-Henaki,
  • Hend Al-Khalifa and
  • Abdulmalik Al-Salman

22 July 2025

Social media has become a platform for the rapid spread of persuasion techniques that can negatively affect individuals and society. Propaganda detection, a crucial task in natural language processing, aims to identify manipulative content in texts,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,820 Views
15 Pages

Improving Automated Essay Scoring by Prompt Prediction and Matching

  • Jingbo Sun,
  • Tianbao Song,
  • Jihua Song and
  • Weiming Peng

29 August 2022

Automated essay scoring aims to evaluate the quality of an essay automatically. It is one of the main educational application in the field of natural language processing. Recently, Pre-training techniques have been used to improve performance on down...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,281 Views
15 Pages

Language Representation Models: An Overview

  • Thorben Schomacker and
  • Marina Tropmann-Frick

28 October 2021

In the last few decades, text mining has been used to extract knowledge from free texts. Applying neural networks and deep learning to natural language processing (NLP) tasks has led to many accomplishments for real-world language problems over the y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,647 Views
13 Pages

Developing a POS Tagged Corpus of Urdu Tweets

  • Amber Baig,
  • Mutee U Rahman,
  • Hameedullah Kazi and
  • Ahsanullah Baloch

7 November 2020

Processing of social media text like tweets is challenging for traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools developed for well-edited text due to the noisy nature of such text. However, demand for tools and resources to correctly process such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,457 Views
19 Pages

IvCDS: An End-to-End Driver Simulator for Personal In-Vehicle Conversational Assistant

  • Tianbo Ji,
  • Xuanhua Yin,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Liting Zhou,
  • Siyou Liu,
  • Wei Bao and
  • Chenyang Lyu

An advanced driver simulator methodology facilitates a well-connected interaction between the environment and drivers. Multiple traffic information environment language processing aims to help drivers accommodate travel demand: safety prewarning, des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,101 Views
9 Pages

26 February 2022

Due to the promising performance of pre-trained language models for task-oriented dialogue systems (DS) in English, some efforts to provide multilingual models for task-oriented DS in low-resource languages have emerged. These efforts still face a lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,686 Views
17 Pages

Language proficiency assessments are pivotal in educational and professional decision-making. With the integration of AI-driven technologies, these assessments can more frequently use item types, such as dictation tasks, producing response features w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,874 Views
14 Pages

10 July 2023

The use of Transformer-based pre-trained language models has become prevalent in enhancing the performance of task-oriented dialogue systems. These models, which are pre-trained on large text data to grasp the language syntax and semantics, fine-tune...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,451 Views
26 Pages

24 January 2022

In Industry 5.0, human workers and their wellbeing are placed at the centre of the production process. In this context, task-oriented dialogue systems allow workers to delegate simple tasks to industrial assets while working on other, more complex on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,570 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2022

Task-oriented dialogue systems (DS) are designed to help users perform daily activities using natural language. Task-oriented DS for English language have demonstrated promising performance outcomes; however, developing such systems to support Arabic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,210 Views
11 Pages

19 January 2022

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is an AI challenge that requires machines to determine the correct answer to a question based on a given passage, in which extractive MRC requires extracting an answer span to a question from a given passage, such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,940 Views
22 Pages

3 November 2024

With the development of technology, the popularity of online medical treatment is becoming more and more widespread. However, the accuracy and credibility of online medical treatment are affected by model design and semantic understanding. In particu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,684 Views
24 Pages

A Modular Framework for Domain-Specific Conversational Systems Powered by Never-Ending Learning

  • Felipe Coelho de Abreu Pinna,
  • Victor Takashi Hayashi,
  • João Carlos Néto,
  • Rosangela de Fátima Pereira Marquesone,
  • Maísa Cristina Duarte,
  • Rodrigo Suzuki Okada and
  • Wilson Vicente Ruggiero

16 February 2024

Complex and long interactions (e.g., a change of topic during a conversation) justify the use of dialog systems to develop task-oriented chatbots and intelligent virtual assistants. The development of dialog systems requires considerable effort and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,204 Views
20 Pages

Optimizing Tourism Accommodation Offers by Integrating Language Models and Knowledge Graph Technologies

  • Andrea Cadeddu,
  • Alessandro Chessa,
  • Vincenzo De Leo,
  • Gianni Fenu,
  • Enrico Motta,
  • Francesco Osborne,
  • Diego Reforgiato Recupero,
  • Angelo Salatino and
  • Luca Secchi

10 July 2024

Online platforms have become the primary means for travellers to search, compare, and book accommodations for their trips. Consequently, online platforms and revenue managers must acquire a comprehensive comprehension of these dynamics to formulate a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,799 Views
14 Pages

4 August 2024

To optimize the utilization and analysis of tables, it is essential to recognize and understand their semantics comprehensively. This requirement is especially critical given that many tables lack explicit annotations, necessitating the identificatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,289 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2025

Clinical text classification presents significant challenges in healthcare informatics due to inherent asymmetries in domain-specific terminology, knowledge distribution across specialties, and imbalanced data availability. We introduce MTTL-Clinical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,806 Views
27 Pages

12 April 2022

A natural language processing system can realize effective communication between human and computer with natural language. Because its evaluation method relies on a large amount of labeled data and human judgment, the question of how to systematicall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,315 Views
19 Pages

27 March 2025

Low-resource natural language understanding is one of the challenges in the field of language understanding. As natural language processing and natural language understanding take center stage in machine learning, these challenges need solutions more...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,308 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2020

Along with studies on artificial intelligence technology, research is also being carried out actively in the field of natural language processing to understand and process people’s language, in other words, natural language. For computers to le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,111 Views
18 Pages

With the continuous advancement of deep learning technology, pretrained language models have emerged as crucial tools for natural language processing tasks. However, optimization of pretrained language models is essential for specific tasks such as m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,398 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Data Efficiency of Cross-Lingual Post-Training in Pretrained Language Models

  • Chanhee Lee,
  • Kisu Yang,
  • Taesun Whang,
  • Chanjun Park,
  • Andrew Matteson and
  • Heuiseok Lim

24 February 2021

Language model pretraining is an effective method for improving the performance of downstream natural language processing tasks. Even though language modeling is unsupervised and thus collecting data for it is relatively less expensive, it is still a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,617 Views
22 Pages

Natural Language Understanding for Navigation of Service Robots in Low-Resource Domains and Languages: Scenarios in Spanish and Nahuatl

  • Amadeo Hernández,
  • Rosa María Ortega-Mendoza,
  • Esaú Villatoro-Tello,
  • César Joel Camacho-Bello and
  • Obed Pérez-Cortés

10 April 2024

Human–robot interaction is becoming increasingly common to perform useful tasks in everyday life. From the human–machine communication perspective, achieving effective interaction in natural language is one challenge. To address it, natur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
169 Citations
66,006 Views
42 Pages

1 March 2024

Natural language processing (NLP) has significantly transformed in the last decade, especially in the field of language modeling. Large language models (LLMs) have achieved SOTA performances on natural language understanding (NLU) and natural languag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,974 Views
13 Pages

23 June 2024

Cross-lingual transfer learning using multilingual models has shown promise for improving performance on natural language processing tasks with limited training data. However, translation can introduce superficial patterns that negatively impact mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,778 Views
25 Pages

16 November 2023

Parallel natural language processing systems were previously successfully tested on the tasks of part-of-speech tagging and authorship attribution through mini-language modeling, for which they achieved significantly better results than independent m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,361 Views
34 Pages

Strengths and Weaknesses of LLM-Based and Rule-Based NLP Technologies and Their Potential Synergies

  • Nikitas Ν. Karanikolas,
  • Eirini Manga,
  • Nikoletta Samaridi,
  • Vaios Stergiopoulos,
  • Eleni Tousidou and
  • Michael Vassilakopoulos

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been the cutting-edge technology in natural language processing (NLP) in recent years, making machine-generated text indistinguishable from human-generated text. On the other hand, “rule-based” Natural La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,619 Views
11 Pages

31 March 2021

Multi-task learning (MTL) approaches are actively used for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) has contributed significantly to improving the performance of natural language understanding (NLU)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,682 Views
38 Pages

A Review of Transformer-Based Approaches for Image Captioning

  • Oscar Ondeng,
  • Heywood Ouma and
  • Peter Akuon

9 October 2023

Visual understanding is a research area that bridges the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Image captioning is a visual understanding task in which natural language descriptions of images are automatically generated using v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,393 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2024

The BERT model is regarded as the cornerstone of various pre-trained large language models that have achieved promising results in recent years. This article investigates how to optimize the BERT model in terms of fine-tuning speed and prediction acc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,823 Views
18 Pages

Dissociating Language and Thought in Human Reasoning

  • John P. Coetzee,
  • Micah A. Johnson,
  • Youngzie Lee,
  • Allan D. Wu,
  • Marco Iacoboni and
  • Martin M. Monti

29 December 2022

What is the relationship between language and complex thought? In the context of deductive reasoning there are two main views. Under the first, which we label here the language-centric view, language is central to the syntax-like combinatorial operat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,449 Views
24 Pages

On the Use of Parsing for Named Entity Recognition

  • Miguel A. Alonso,
  • Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and
  • Jesús Vilares

25 January 2021

Parsing is a core natural language processing technique that can be used to obtain the structure underlying sentences in human languages. Named entity recognition (NER) is the task of identifying the entities that appear in a text. NER is a challengi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,138 Views
32 Pages

Survey of Neural Text Representation Models

  • Karlo Babić,
  • Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić and
  • Ana Meštrović

30 October 2020

In natural language processing, text needs to be transformed into a machine-readable representation before any processing. The quality of further natural language processing tasks greatly depends on the quality of those representations. In this surve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,352 Views
17 Pages

29 June 2024

Pretrained language models have achieved great success in various natural language understanding (NLU) tasks due to their capacity to capture deep contextualized information in text using pretraining on large-scale corpora. Tokenization plays a signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,084 Views
17 Pages

Automatic Correction of Indonesian Grammatical Errors Based on Transformer

  • Ahmad Musyafa,
  • Ying Gao,
  • Aiman Solyman,
  • Chaojie Wu and
  • Siraj Khan

14 October 2022

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is one of the major tasks in natural language processing (NLP) which has recently attracted great attention from researchers. The performance of universal languages such as English and Chinese in the GEC system has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,023 Views
15 Pages

Topological data analysis has recently found applications in various areas of science, such as computer vision and understanding of protein folding. However, applications of topological data analysis to natural language processing remain under-resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,728 Views
25 Pages

Quantum Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Raffaele Guarasci,
  • Giuseppe De Pietro and
  • Massimo Esposito

2 June 2022

The meeting between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Quantum Computing has been very successful in recent years, leading to the development of several approaches of the so-called Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). This is a hybrid field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,744 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2024

This research was conducted in 2019 in collaboration with Japanese colleagues, with the research tasks translated from the original Japanese. In Finland, a total of 1112 students from grades 7–9 in primary school participated in the study. In o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,945 Views
26 Pages

26 January 2023

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) technology has made great progress. Models based on transformers have performed well in various natural language processing problems. However, a natural language task can be carried out by multiple d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,986 Views
17 Pages

Computational Linguistics with Deep-Learning-Based Intent Detection for Natural Language Understanding

  • Hala J. Alshahrani,
  • Khaled Tarmissi,
  • Hussain Alshahrani,
  • Mohamed Ahmed Elfaki,
  • Ayman Yafoz,
  • Raed Alsini,
  • Omar Alghushairy and
  • Manar Ahmed Hamza

29 August 2022

Computational linguistics explores how human language is interpreted automatically and then processed. Research in this area takes the logical and mathematical features of natural language and advances methods and statistical procedures for automated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,367 Views
13 Pages

15 December 2022

The natural language model BERT uses a large-scale unsupervised corpus to accumulate rich linguistic knowledge during its pretraining stage, and then, the information is fine-tuned for specific downstream tasks, which greatly improves the understandi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,422 Views
16 Pages

VPN: Variation on Prompt Tuning for Named-Entity Recognition

  • Niu Hu,
  • Xuan Zhou,
  • Bing Xu,
  • Hanqing Liu,
  • Xiangjin Xie and
  • Hai-Tao Zheng

19 July 2023

Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved a promising performance in many natural language processing benchmarks. Despite success in sentence-level classification tasks, prompt-based methods work poorly in token-level tasks, such as named entity r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,312 Views
22 Pages

31 October 2022

Because the pretraining model is not limited by the scale of data annotation and can learn general semantic information, it performs well in tasks related to natural language processing and computer vision. In recent years, more and more attention ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,161 Views
26 Pages

1 May 2023

One of the main tasks in the field of natural language processing (NLP) is the analysis of affective states (sentiment and emotional) based on written text, and attempts have improved dramatically in recent years. However, in studies on the Arabic la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,075 Views
14 Pages

Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification Using Seq2Seq Dialect Normalization and Transformers

  • Mohammed ElAmine Chennafi,
  • Hanane Bedlaoui,
  • Abdelghani Dahou and
  • Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness

4 August 2022

Sentiment analysis is one of the most important fields of natural language processing due to its wide range of applications and the benefits associated with using it. It is defined as identifying the sentiment polarity of natural language text. Resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,983 Views
22 Pages

2 February 2021

Due to the development of computer vision and natural language processing technologies in recent years, there has been a growing interest in multimodal intelligent tasks that require the ability to concurrently understand various forms of input data...

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