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This paper proposes an algorithm for recognizing slab identification numbers in factory scenes. In the development of a deep-learning based system, manual labeling to make ground truth data (GTD) is an important but expensive task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Sang Jun Lee , Sang Woo Kim , Wookyong Kwon , Gyogwon Koo , Jong Pil Yun

Data quality is crucial for training accurate, unbiased, and trustworthy machine learning models as well as for their correct evaluation. Recent works, however, have shown that even popular datasets used to train and evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jan-Christoph Klie , Richard Eckart de Castilho , Iryna Gurevych

Automated fact-checking based on machine learning is a promising approach to identify false information distributed on the web. In order to achieve satisfactory performance, machine learning methods require a large corpus with reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Andreas Hanselowski , Christian Stab , Claudia Schulz , Zile Li , Iryna Gurevych

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks rely on labeled data to train machine learning models with high performance. However, data annotation is time-consuming and expensive, especially when the task involves a large amount of data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Xingwei He , Zhenghao Lin , Yeyun Gong , A-Long Jin , Hang Zhang , Chen Lin , Jian Jiao , Siu Ming Yiu , Nan Duan , Weizhu Chen

We consider a class of variable effort human annotation tasks in which the number of labels required per item can greatly vary (e.g., finding all faces in an image, named entities in a text, bird calls in an audio recording, etc.). In such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Danula Hettiachchi , Mike Schaekermann , Tristan McKinney , Matthew Lease

Machine-learning based generation of process models from natural language text process descriptions provides a solution for the time-intensive and expensive process discovery phase. Many organizations have to carry out this phase, before…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Julian Neuberger , Han van der Aa , Lars Ackermann , Daniel Buschek , Jannic Herrmann , Stefan Jablonski

This paper investigates the automation of qualitative data analysis, focusing on inductive coding using large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditional approaches that rely on deductive methods with predefined labels, this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Angelina Parfenova , Andreas Marfurt , Alexander Denzler , Juergen Pfeffer

Recent work in Machine Learning and Computer Vision has highlighted the presence of various types of systematic flaws inside ground truth object recognition benchmark datasets. Our basic tenet is that these flaws are rooted in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Fausto Giunchiglia , Mayukh Bagchi , Xiaolei Diao

Performances of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models are largely determined by the availability of labeled and representative training samples. However, in many application scenarios labeled samples are scarce or costly to obtain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

The quality of the dataset is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability of downstream task models. However, datasets often contain noisy data inadvertently included during the construction process. Numerous attempts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Juhwan Choi , Jungmin Yun , Kyohoon Jin , YoungBin Kim

This paper explores using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to automate the data annotation process with automatic prompting techniques. The main aim of this paper is to reuse human annotation guidelines along with some annotated data to design automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sachin Yadav , Tejaswi Choppa , Dominik Schlechtweg

One of the most important issues in Information Retrieval is inferring the intents underlying users' queries. Thus, any tool to enrich or to better contextualized queries can proof extremely valuable. Entity extraction, provided it is done…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-14 David J. Brenes , Daniel Gayo-Avello , Rodrigo Garcia

Historical handwritten text recognition (HTR) is essential for unlocking the cultural and scholarly value of archival documents, yet digitization is often hindered by scarce transcriptions, linguistic variation, and highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Erez Meoded

There is an increasing interest and effort in preserving and documenting endangered languages. Language data are valuable only when they are well-cataloged, indexed and searchable. Many language data, particularly those of lesser-spoken…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Artem Chebotko , Shiyong Lu , Farshad Fotouhi , Anthony Aristar

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has brought a critical need for high-quality human-labeled data, particularly for processes like human feedback and evaluation. A common practice is to label data via consensus annotation over human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Manya Wadhwa , Jifan Chen , Junyi Jessy Li , Greg Durrett

Beyond simplistic 3D visualisations, archaeologists, as well as cultural heritage experts and practitioners, need applications with advanced functionalities. Such as the annotation and attachment of metadata onto particular regions of the…

The increasing volume of research paper submissions poses a significant challenge to the traditional academic peer-review system, leading to an overwhelming workload for reviewers. This study explores the potential of integrating Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Oscar Díaz , Xabier Garmendia , Juanan Pereira

Incorporating every annotator's perspective is crucial for unbiased data modeling. Annotator fatigue and changing opinions over time can distort dataset annotations. To combat this, we propose to learn a more accurate representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Uthman Jinadu , Yi Ding

Recently, detection of label errors and improvement of label quality in datasets for supervised learning tasks has become an increasingly important goal in both research and industry. The consequences of incorrectly annotated data include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sarina Penquitt , Tobias Riedlinger , Timo Heller , Markus Reischl , Matthias Rottmann

For many low-resource or endangered languages, spoken language resources are more likely to be annotated with translations than with transcriptions. Recent work exploits such annotations to produce speech-to-translation alignments, without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Antonios Anastasopoulos , David Chiang