从职位发布获得的汇总数据为劳动力市场需求，新兴技能以及援助工作匹配提供了有力的见解。但是，大多数提取方法受到监督，因此需要昂贵且耗时的注释。为了克服这一点，我们建议通过弱监督提取技巧。我们利用欧洲的技能，能力，资格和职业分类法，通过潜在代表来找到工作广告的类似技能。该方法根据令牌级别和句法模式显示了强烈的正信号，优于基准。

技能在就业市场和许多人力资源（HR）过程中起着核心作用。在其他数字经验之后，当今的在线工作市场有候选人希望根据他们的技能看到正确的机会。同样，企业越来越需要使用数据来确保其劳动力中的技能保持未来。但是，有关技能的结构化信息通常缺少，并且基于自我或经理评估的流程已证明与所得数据的采用，完整性和新鲜度有关。鉴于明确或仅隐含地描述了数千种可能的技能标签，并且缺乏精细注释的培训语料库，提取技能是一项艰巨的任务。以前的技能提取工作过于简化任务，将其用于明确的实体检测任务，或者基于手动注释的培训数据，如果应用于完整的技能词汇，这是不可行的。我们根据遥远的字面匹配，提出了一个用于技能提取的端到端系统。我们提出并评估了几种负面验证数据集中的几种负面抽样策略，以提高技能提取对隐式提及技能的推广，尽管在遥远的监督数据中缺乏这种隐性技能。我们观察到，使用ESCO分类法从相关技能中选择负面示例会产生最大的进步，并且在一个模型中结合三种不同的策略进一步提高了性能，在RP@5中最多可达8个百分点。我们介绍了基于ESCO分类法的手动注释评估基准，以进行技能提取，并在其上验证模型。我们发布基准数据集以进行研究目的，以刺激对任务的进一步研究。

已经做出了许多努力，试图理解什么语法知识（例如，理解代币的语音部分的能力）是在大型预训练的语言模型（LM）中编码的。这是通过“边缘探测”（EP）测试完成的：监督分类任务，以预测SPAN的语法属性（是否具有语音的特定部分）仅使用来自LM编码器的令牌表示。但是，大多数NLP应用程序对这些LM编码器进行了微调，以用于特定任务。在这里，我们问：如果通过EP测试来衡量，LM是否进行了微调，它的语言信息的编码会改变吗？具体来说，我们专注于回答（QA）的任务，并在多个数据集上进行实验。我们发现，当微调模型表现良好或在模型被迫学习错误的相关性的对抗情况下，EP测试结果不会发生显着变化。从类似的发现来看，最近的一些论文得出结论，微调不会改变编码器中的语言知识，但它们没有提供解释。我们发现，EP模型本身容易利用EP数据集中的虚假相关性。当纠正该数据集偏差时，我们确实会看到EP测试结果的改善。

衡量工作头衔之间的语义相似性是自动工作建议的重要功能。通常使用有监督的学习技术来处理此任务，这需要以同等职位对的形式进行培训数据。在本文中，我们提出了一种使用嘈杂技能标签培训职位相似性模型的无监督表示学习方法。我们表明，对于文本排名和作业归一化等任务非常有效。

基于变压器的语言模型最近在许多自然语言任务中取得了显着的结果。但是，通常通过利用大量培训数据来实现排行榜的性能，并且很少通过将明确的语言知识编码为神经模型。这使许多人质疑语言学对现代自然语言处理的相关性。在本文中，我介绍了几个案例研究，以说明理论语言学和神经语言模型仍然相互关联。首先，语言模型通过提供一个客观的工具来测量语义距离，这对语言学家很有用，语义距离很难使用传统方法。另一方面，语言理论通过提供框架和数据源来探究我们的语言模型，以了解语言理解的特定方面，从而有助于语言建模研究。本论文贡献了三项研究，探讨了语言模型中语法 - 听觉界面的不同方面。在论文的第一部分中，我将语言模型应用于单词类灵活性的问题。我将Mbert作为语义距离测量的来源，我提供了有利于将单词类灵活性分析为方向过程的证据。在论文的第二部分中，我提出了一种方法来测量语言模型中间层的惊奇方法。我的实验表明，包含形态句法异常的句子触发了语言模型早期的惊喜，而不是语义和常识异常。最后，在论文的第三部分中，我适应了一些心理语言学研究，以表明语言模型包含了论证结构结构的知识。总而言之，我的论文在自然语言处理，语言理论和心理语言学之间建立了新的联系，以为语言模型的解释提供新的观点。

Automatic keyword extraction (AKE) has gained more importance with the increasing amount of digital textual data that modern computing systems process. It has various applications in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP), including text summarisation, topic analysis and document indexing. This paper proposes a simple but effective post-processing-based universal approach to improve the performance of any AKE methods, via an enhanced level of semantic-awareness supported by PoS-tagging. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach, we considered word types retrieved from a PoS-tagging step and two representative sources of semantic information -- specialised terms defined in one or more context-dependent thesauri, and named entities in Wikipedia. The above three steps can be simply added to the end of any AKE methods as part of a post-processor, which simply re-evaluate all candidate keywords following some context-specific and semantic-aware criteria. For five state-of-the-art (SOTA) AKE methods, our experimental results with 17 selected datasets showed that the proposed approach improved their performances both consistently (up to 100\% in terms of improved cases) and significantly (between 10.2\% and 53.8\%, with an average of 25.8\%, in terms of F1-score and across all five methods), especially when all the three enhancement steps are used. Our results have profound implications considering the ease to apply our proposed approach to any AKE methods and to further extend it.

数据饥饿的深度神经网络已经将自己作为许多NLP任务的标准建立为包括传统序列标记的标准。尽管他们在高资源语言上表现最先进的表现，但它们仍然落后于低资源场景的统计计数器。一个方法来反击攻击此问题是文本增强，即，从现有数据生成新的合成训练数据点。虽然NLP最近目睹了一种文本增强技术的负载，但该领域仍然缺乏对多种语言和序列标记任务的系统性能分析。为了填补这一差距，我们调查了三类文本增强方法，其在语法（例如，裁剪子句子），令牌（例如，随机字插入）和字符（例如，字符交换）级别上执行更改。我们系统地将它们与语音标记，依赖解析和语义角色标记的分组进行了比较，用于使用各种模型的各种语言系列，包括依赖于诸如MBERT的普赖金的多语言语境化语言模型的架构。增强最显着改善了解析，然后是语音标记和语义角色标记的依赖性解析。我们发现实验技术通常在形态上丰富的语言，而不是越南语等分析语言。我们的研究结果表明，增强技术可以进一步改善基于MBERT的强基线。我们将字符级方法标识为最常见的表演者，而同义词替换和语法增强仪提供不一致的改进。最后，我们讨论了最大依赖于任务，语言对和模型类型的结果。

In this paper we investigated two different methods to parse relative and noun complement clauses in English and resorted to distinct tags for their corresponding that as a relative pronoun and as a complementizer. We used an algorithm to relabel a corpus parsed with the GUM Treebank using Universal Dependency. Our second experiment consisted in using TreeTagger, a Probabilistic Decision Tree, to learn the distinction between the two complement and relative uses of postnominal "that". We investigated the effect of the training set size on TreeTagger accuracy and how representative the GUM Treebank files are for the two structures under scrutiny. We discussed some of the linguistic and structural tenets of the learnability of this distinction.

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.

We present SpanBERT, a pre-training method that is designed to better represent and predict spans of text. Our approach extends BERT by (1) masking contiguous random spans, rather than random tokens, and (2) training the span boundary representations to predict the entire content of the masked span, without relying on the individual token representations within it. Span-BERT consistently outperforms BERT and our better-tuned baselines, with substantial gains on span selection tasks such as question answering and coreference resolution. In particular, with the same training data and model size as BERT large , our single model obtains 94.6% and 88.7% F1 on SQuAD 1.1 and 2.0 respectively. We also achieve a new state of the art on the OntoNotes coreference resolution task (79.6% F1), strong performance on the TACRED relation extraction benchmark, and even gains on GLUE. 1 * Equal contribution. 1 Our code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/ SpanBERT.

Contextualized representation models such as ELMo (Peters et al., 2018a) and BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) have recently achieved state-of-the-art results on a diverse array of downstream NLP tasks. Building on recent token-level probing work, we introduce a novel edge probing task design and construct a broad suite of sub-sentence tasks derived from the traditional structured NLP pipeline. We probe word-level contextual representations from four recent models and investigate how they encode sentence structure across a range of syntactic, semantic, local, and long-range phenomena. We find that existing models trained on language modeling and translation produce strong representations for syntactic phenomena, but only offer comparably small improvements on semantic tasks over a non-contextual baseline.

Relation extraction (RE) is a sub-discipline of information extraction (IE) which focuses on the prediction of a relational predicate from a natural-language input unit (such as a sentence, a clause, or even a short paragraph consisting of multiple sentences and/or clauses). Together with named-entity recognition (NER) and disambiguation (NED), RE forms the basis for many advanced IE tasks such as knowledge-base (KB) population and verification. In this work, we explore how recent approaches for open information extraction (OpenIE) may help to improve the task of RE by encoding structured information about the sentences' principal units, such as subjects, objects, verbal phrases, and adverbials, into various forms of vectorized (and hence unstructured) representations of the sentences. Our main conjecture is that the decomposition of long and possibly convoluted sentences into multiple smaller clauses via OpenIE even helps to fine-tune context-sensitive language models such as BERT (and its plethora of variants) for RE. Our experiments over two annotated corpora, KnowledgeNet and FewRel, demonstrate the improved accuracy of our enriched models compared to existing RE approaches. Our best results reach 92% and 71% of F1 score for KnowledgeNet and FewRel, respectively, proving the effectiveness of our approach on competitive benchmarks.

Recent work attributes progress in NLP to large language models (LMs) with increased model size and large quantities of pretraining data. Despite this, current state-of-the-art LMs for Hebrew are both under-parameterized and under-trained compared to LMs in other languages. Additionally, previous work on pretrained Hebrew LMs focused on encoder-only models. While the encoder-only architecture is beneficial for classification tasks, it does not cater well for sub-word prediction tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition, when considering the morphologically rich nature of Hebrew. In this paper we argue that sequence-to-sequence generative architectures are more suitable for LLMs in the case of morphologically rich languages (MRLs) such as Hebrew. We demonstrate that by casting tasks in the Hebrew NLP pipeline as text-to-text tasks, we can leverage powerful multilingual, pretrained sequence-to-sequence models as mT5, eliminating the need for a specialized, morpheme-based, separately fine-tuned decoder. Using this approach, our experiments show substantial improvements over previously published results on existing Hebrew NLP benchmarks. These results suggest that multilingual sequence-to-sequence models present a promising building block for NLP for MRLs.

本文概述了与CRAC 2022研讨会相关的多语言核心分辨率的共享任务。共同的任务参与者应该开发能够识别提及并根据身份核心重点聚集的训练系统。Corefud 1.0的公共版本包含10种语言的13个数据集，被用作培训和评估数据的来源。先前面向核心共享任务中使用的串联分数用作主要评估度量。5个参与团队提交了8个核心预测系统；此外，组织者在共享任务开始时提供了一个基于竞争变压器的基线系统。获胜者系统的表现优于基线12个百分点（就所有语言的所有数据集而言，在所有数据集中平均得分）。

In this paper, we present strong baselines for the task of Feedback Comment Generation for Writing Learning. Given a sentence and an error span, the task is to generate a feedback comment explaining the error. Sentences and feedback comments are both in English. We experiment with LLMs and also create multiple pseudo datasets for the task, investigating how it affects the performance of our system. We present our results for the task along with extensive analysis of the generated comments with the aim of aiding future studies in feedback comment generation for English language learners.

The long-distance agreement, evidence for syntactic structure, is increasingly used to assess the syntactic generalization of Neural Language Models. Much work has shown that transformers are capable of high accuracy in varied agreement tasks, but the mechanisms by which the models accomplish this behavior are still not well understood. To better understand transformers' internal working, this work contrasts how they handle two superficially similar but theoretically distinct agreement phenomena: subject-verb and object-past participle agreement in French. Using probing and counterfactual analysis methods, our experiments show that i) the agreement task suffers from several confounders which partially question the conclusions drawn so far and ii) transformers handle subject-verb and object-past participle agreements in a way that is consistent with their modeling in theoretical linguistics.

The BERT family of neural language models have become highly popular due to their ability to provide sequences of text with rich context-sensitive token encodings which are able to generalise well to many NLP tasks. We introduce gaBERT, a monolingual BERT model for the Irish language. We compare our gaBERT model to multilingual BERT and the monolingual Irish WikiBERT, and we show that gaBERT provides better representations for a downstream parsing task. We also show how different filtering criteria, vocabulary size and the choice of subword tokenisation model affect downstream performance. We compare the results of fine-tuning a gaBERT model with an mBERT model for the task of identifying verbal multiword expressions, and show that the fine-tuned gaBERT model also performs better at this task. We release gaBERT and related code to the community.

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving a code snippet given a textual description of its functionality. Recent work has been focused on using similarity metrics between neural embeddings of text and code. However, current language models are known to struggle with longer, compositional text, and multi-step reasoning. To overcome this limitation, we propose supplementing the query sentence with a layout of its semantic structure. The semantic layout is used to break down the final reasoning decision into a series of lower-level decisions. We use a Neural Module Network architecture to implement this idea. We compare our model - NS3 (Neuro-Symbolic Semantic Search) - to a number of baselines, including state-of-the-art semantic code retrieval methods, and evaluate on two datasets - CodeSearchNet and Code Search and Question Answering. We demonstrate that our approach results in more precise code retrieval, and we study the effectiveness of our modular design when handling compositional queries.

了解工作需求的演变对于工人，公司和公共组织遵循就业市场的快速转型而变得越来越重要。幸运的是，最近的自然语言处理（NLP）方法允许开发方法以自动从工作广告中提取信息并更精确地识别技能。但是，这些有效的方法需要从研究领域的大量注释数据，这些数据很难访问，这主要是由于知识产权。本文提出了一个新的公共数据集fijo，其中包含保险工作优惠，包括许多软技能注释。为了了解该数据集的潜力，我们详细介绍了一些特征和一些局限性。然后，我们使用命名的实体识别方法介绍了技能检测算法的结果，并表明基于变形金刚的模型在此数据集上具有良好的令牌性能。最后，我们分析了我们最佳模型犯的一些错误，以强调应用NLP方法时可能出现的困难。

英语自然语言理解（NLU）系统已经取得了出色的表现，甚至在胶水和超级胶水等基准上表现出色。但是，这些基准仅包含教科书标准美国英语（SAE）。在NLP社区中，其他方言在很大程度上被忽略了。这导致偏见且不平等的NLU系统，仅服务于说话者的子人群。为了了解当前模型的差异并促进了更多的语言功能性的NLU系统，我们介绍了白话语言理解评估（Value）基准，这是我们使用一套词汇和形态句法转换规则创建的具有挑战性的胶水变体。在此最初版本（v.1）中，我们为非裔美国人白话英语（AAVE）的11个特征构建规则，并招募流利的AAVE扬声器，以通过参与性设计方式通过语言可接受性判断来验证每个功能转换。实验表明，这些新的方言功能可以导致模型性能下降。要运行转换代码并下载合成和金标准的方言胶水标准，请参见https://github.com/salt-nlp/value