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The automatic transformation of verbose, natural language descriptions into structured process models remains a challenge of significant complexity - This paper introduces a contemporary solution, where central to our approach, is the use…

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In document classification, graph-based models effectively capture document structure, overcoming sequence length limitations and enhancing contextual understanding. However, most existing graph document representations rely on heuristics,…

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Creating a descriptive grammar of a language is an indispensable step for language documentation and preservation. However, at the same time it is a tedious, time-consuming task. In this paper, we take steps towards automating this process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Aditi Chaudhary , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Adithya Pratapa , David R. Mortensen , Zaid Sheikh , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

We introduce an automated method for structuring textual data into a model-agnostic schema, enabling alignment with any database model. It generates both a schema and its instance. Initially, textual data is represented as semantically…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jacques Chabin , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari , Nicolas Hiot

The primary theme of this investigation is a decision theoretic account of conditional ought statements (e.g., "You ought to do A, if C") that rectifies glaring deficiencies in classical deontic logic. The resulting account forms a sound…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Judea Pearl

Rules are pervasive in the law. In the context of computer engineering, the translation of legal text to algorithmic form is seemingly direct. In large part, law may be a ripe field for expert systems and machine learning. For engineers,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Megan Ma , Dmitriy Podkopaev , Avalon Campbell-Cousins , Adam Nicholas

Statutory reasoning is the task of determining whether a legal statute, stated in natural language, applies to the text description of a case. Prior work introduced a resource that approached statutory reasoning as a monolithic textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nils Holzenberger , Benjamin Van Durme

Dependency syntax represents the structure of a sentence as a tree composed of dependencies, i.e., directed relations between lexical units. While in its more general form any such tree is allowed, in practice many are not plausible or are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Gómez-Rodríguez , Carlos , Alemany-Puig , Lluís

We present a comprehensive approach to the automated formalization of legal texts using large language models (LLMs), targeting their transformation into Defeasible Deontic Logic (DDL). Our method employs a structured pipeline that segments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Elias Horner , Cristinel Mateis , Guido Governatori , Agata Ciabattoni

Normative reasoning is a type of reasoning that involves normative or deontic modality, such as obligation and permission. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various reasoning tasks, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kentaro Ozeki , Risako Ando , Takanobu Morishita , Hirohiko Abe , Koji Mineshima , Mitsuhiro Okada

In the talk at the workshop my aim was to demonstrate the usefulness of graph techniques for tackling problems that have been studied predominantly as problems on the term level: increasing sharing in functional programs, and addressing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Clemens Grabmayer

In order to automate verification process, regulatory rules written in natural language need to be translated into a format that machines can understand. However, none of the existing formalisms can fully represent the elements that appear…

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Communicating complex system designs or scientific processes through text alone is inefficient and prone to ambiguity. A system that automatically generates scientific architecture diagrams from text with high semantic fidelity can be…

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Language models are increasingly being used in important decision pipelines, so ensuring the correctness of their outputs is crucial. Recent work has proposed evaluating the "factuality" of claims decomposed from a language model generation…

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This paper highlights the challenges, current trends, and open issues related to the representation, querying and analytics of content extracted from texts. The internet contains vast text-based information on various subjects, including…

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We present an approach for modelling the structure and coarse content of legal documents with a view to providing automated support for the drafting of contracts and contract database retrieval. The approach is designed to be applicable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aspassia Daskalopulu , Marek Sergot

Extracting action sequences from natural language texts is challenging, as it requires commonsense inferences based on world knowledge. Although there has been work on extracting action scripts, instructions, navigation actions, etc., they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Wenfeng Feng , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Subbarao Kambhampati

This paper describes an alignment-based model for interpreting natural language instructions in context. We approach instruction following as a search over plans, scoring sequences of actions conditioned on structured observations of text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Jacob Andreas , Dan Klein

We propose to leverage news discourse profiling to model document-level temporal structures for building temporal dependency graphs. Our key observation is that the functional roles of sentences used for profiling news discourse signify…

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In object oriented software development, the analysis modeling is concerned with the task of identifying problem level objects along with the relationships between them from software requirements. The software requirements are usually…

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