Challenge: Non-compositional expressions are a classic ‘pain in the neck’ for NLP systems because of their non-composibility and limited data resources.
Approach: They propose a dynamic curriculum learning framework which learns training examples from easy ones to harder ones but suffers from the forgetting problem.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on idiomatic expression generation and metaphor generation.

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Challenge: Recent work shows that pre-trained language models are limited in their ability to generate non-compositional expressions.
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CLCL: Non-compositional Expression Detection with Contrastive Learning and Curriculum Learning (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Non-compositional expressions are a substantial challenge for natural language processing systems, necessitating more intricate processing compared to general language tasks.
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Rehearsal-Free Modular and Compositional Continual Learning for Language Models (2024.naacl-short)

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Challenge: Existing methods to overcome catastrophic forgetting are rehearsal-based and parameter isolation-based.
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In-sample Curriculum Learning by Sequence Completion for Natural Language Generation (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work on curriculum learning rely on task-specific expertise and cannot generalize to different tasks.
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An Unsupervised Method for Learning Representations of Multi-word Expressions for Semantic Classification (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for learning multi-word expressions have language sparsity and are not supervised.
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Class-Incremental Learning based on Label Generation (2023.acl-short)

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Challenge: Existing studies on pre-trained language models focus on task-incremental learning (TIL) but they perform poorly in a more challenging setting of class-incremental learning.
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Fine-tuned Language Models are Continual Learners (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent work on large language models relies on intuition that most tasks can be described via natural language instructions.
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Leveraging Training Dynamics and Self-Training for Text Classification (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a promising technique for improving deep learning models when training data is scarce.
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Rethinking Long Context Generation from the Continual Learning Perspective (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with processing long contexts due to the limited context window.
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Continual Lifelong Learning in Natural Language Processing: A Survey (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to continual learning (CL) are costly and time-consuming.
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