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A well-established approach to reasoning about loops during program analysis is to capture the effect of a loop by extracting recurrences from the loop; these express relationships between the values of variables, or program properties such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Bishoksan Kafle , John P. Gallagher , Manuel V. Hermenegildo , Maximiliano Klemen , Pedro López-García , José F. Morales

Document reconstruction constitutes a significant facet of document analysis and recognition, a field that has been progressively accruing interest within the scholarly community. A multitude of these researchers employ an array of document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xin Li , Mingming Gong , Yunfei Wu , Jianxin Dai , Antai Guo , Xinghua Jiang , Haoyu Cao , Yinsong Liu , Deqiang Jiang , Xing Sun

We introduce an algebraic analogue of dynamical systems, based on term rewriting. We show that a recursive function applied to the output of an iterated rewriting system defines a formal class of models into which all the main architectures…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Iolo Jones , Jerry Swan , Jeffrey Giansiracusa

Passive documents and active programs now widely comingle. Document languages include Turing-complete programming elements, and programming languages include sophisticated document notations. However, there are no formal foundations that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Will Crichton , Shriram Krishnamurthi

Regular expressions are a fundamental concept in computer science and widely used in various applications. In this paper we focused on deterministic regular expressions (DREs). Considering that researchers didn't have large datasets as…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yeting Li , Xinyu Chu , Xiaoying Mou , Chunmei Dong , Haiming Chen

This research work deals with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and extraction of essential information in an explicit form. The most common among the information management strategies is Document Retrieval (DR) and Information Filtering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 K. R. Chowdhary

The present paper investigates the dynamic complexity of document spanners, a formal framework for information extraction introduced by Fagin, Kimelfeld, Reiss, and Vansummeren (JACM 2015). We first look at the class of regular spanners and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Dominik D. Freydenberger , Sam M. Thompson

Many data extraction tasks of practical relevance require not only syntactic pattern matching but also semantic reasoning about the content of the underlying text. While regular expressions are very well suited for tasks that require only…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Qiaochu Chen , Arko Banerjee , Çağatay Demiralp , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

It has previously been shown that by using reinforcement learning (RL), agents can derive simple approximate and exact-restricted numeral systems that are similar to human ones (Carlsson, 2021). However, it is a major challenge to show how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Andrea Silvi , Jonathan Thomas , Emil Carlsson , Devdatt Dubhashi , Moa Johansson

Regular expression matching is of practical importance due to its widespread use in real-world applications. In practical use, regular expressions are often used with real-world extensions. Accordingly, the matching problem of regular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Taisei Nogami , Tachio Terauchi

We examine the capabilities of a unified, multi-task framework for three information extraction tasks: named entity recognition, relation extraction, and event extraction. Our framework (called DyGIE++) accomplishes all tasks by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 David Wadden , Ulme Wennberg , Yi Luan , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Programming by Example (PBE) is the task of inducing computer programs from input-output examples. It can be seen as a type of machine learning where the hypothesis space is the set of legal programs in some programming language. Recent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-03 John K. Feser , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt , Daniel Tarlow

This paper presents a study of the metaphorism pattern of relational specification, showing how it can be refined into recursive programs. Metaphorisms express input-output relationships which preserve relevant information while at the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-27 J. N. Oliveira

Universal Information Extraction (UIE) is an area of interest due to the challenges posed by varying targets, heterogeneous structures, and demand-specific schemas. However, previous works have only achieved limited success by unifying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Chengyuan Liu , Fubang Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Jingyuan Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Changlong Sun , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Retrieving documents and prepending them in-context at inference time improves performance of language model (LMs) on a wide range of tasks. However, these documents, often spanning hundreds of words, make inference substantially more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Fangyuan Xu , Weijia Shi , Eunsol Choi

Span extraction, aiming to extract text spans (such as words or phrases) from plain texts, is a fundamental process in Information Extraction. Recent works introduce the label knowledge to enhance the text representation by formalizing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Pan Yang , Xin Cong , Zhenyun Sun , Xingwu Liu

We show how to underapproximate the procedure summaries of recursive programs over the integers using off-the-shelf analyzers for non-recursive programs. The novelty of our approach is that the non-recursive program we compute may capture…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Pierre Ganty , Radu Iosif , Filip Konecny

Sparse document representations have been widely used to retrieve relevant documents via exact lexical matching. Owing to the pre-computed inverted index, it supports fast ad-hoc search but incurs the vocabulary mismatch problem. Although…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Eunseong Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Hyeseon Ko , Young-In Song , Jongwuk Lee

Recent work has shown that the computations of Transformers can be simulated in the RASP family of programming languages. These findings have enabled improved understanding of the expressive capacity and generalization abilities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xinting Huang , Aleksandra Bakalova , Satwik Bhattamishra , William Merrill , Michael Hahn

Formulaic expressions, such as 'in this paper we propose', are helpful for authors of scholarly papers because they convey communicative functions; in the above, it is showing the aim of this paper'. Thus, resources of formulaic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Kenichi Iwatsuki , Florian Boudin , Akiko Aizawa