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The extreme multi-label classification (XMC) task aims at tagging content with a subset of labels from an extremely large label set. The label vocabulary is typically defined in advance by domain experts and assumed to capture all necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Daniel Simig , Fabio Petroni , Pouya Yanki , Kashyap Popat , Christina Du , Sebastian Riedel , Majid Yazdani

Hierarchical multi-label academic text classification (HMTC) is to assign academic texts into a hierarchically structured labeling system. We propose an attention-based hierarchical multi-label classification algorithm of academic texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yue Wang , Yawen Li , Ang Li

The classification of legal documents from an unstructured data corpus has several crucial applications in downstream tasks. Documents relevant to court filings are key in use cases such as drafting motions, memos, and outlines, as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ishaan Gakhar , Harsh Nandwani

In this paper, we focus on data augmentation for the extreme multi-label classification (XMC) problem. One of the most challenging issues of XMC is the long tail label distribution where even strong models suffer from insufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Danqing Zhang , Tao Li , Haiyang Zhang , Bing Yin

Extreme multilabel classification (XMLC) problems occur in settings such as related product recommendation, large-scale document tagging, or ad prediction, and are characterized by a label space that can span millions of possible labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Nasib Ullah , Erik Schultheis , Jinbin Zhang , Rohit Babbar

This paper proposes a Clustering, Labeling, then Augmenting framework that significantly enhances performance in Semi-Supervised Text Classification (SSTC) tasks, effectively addressing the challenge of vast datasets with limited labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shan Zhong , Jiahao Zeng , Yongxin Yu , Bohong Lin

Extreme multi-label (XML) classification refers to the task of supervised multi-label learning that involves a large number of labels. Hence, scalability of the classifier with increasing label dimension is an important consideration. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Istasis Mishra , Arpan Dasgupta , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra , Pawan Kumar

Multi-label learning has attracted significant attention from both academic and industry field in recent decades. Although existing multi-label learning algorithms achieved good performance in various tasks, they implicitly assume the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tong Wei , Zhen Mao , Jiang-Xin Shi , Yu-Feng Li , Min-Ling Zhang

CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and CapsNets have shown significant insights in representation learning and are widely used in various text mining tasks such as large-scale multi-label text classification. However, most existing deep models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Lifang He , Bo Li , Lihong Wang , Philip S. Yu

We describe a dataset developed for Named Entity Recognition in German federal court decisions. It consists of approx. 67,000 sentences with over 2 million tokens. The resource contains 54,000 manually annotated entities, mapped to 19…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Elena Leitner , Georg Rehm , Julián Moreno-Schneider

Large, high-quality datasets are crucial for training Large Language Models (LLMs). However, so far, there are few datasets available for specialized critical domains such as law and the available ones are often only for the English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Joel Niklaus , Veton Matoshi , Matthias Stürmer , Ilias Chalkidis , Daniel E. Ho

Legal judgment prediction suffers from the problem of long case documents exceeding tens of thousands of words, in general, and having a non-uniform structure. Predicting judgments from such documents becomes a challenging task, more so on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Nishchal Prasad , Mohand Boughanem , Taoufiq Dkaki

In this paper, an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) based technique for Multi-label classification problems is proposed and discussed. In multi-label classification, each of the input data samples belongs to one or more than one class labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er

Document image classification is different from plain-text document classification and consists of classifying a document by understanding the content and structure of documents such as forms, emails, and other such documents. We show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yoshinari Fujinuma , Siddharth Varia , Nishant Sankaran , Srikar Appalaraju , Bonan Min , Yogarshi Vyas

Hierarchical multi-label text classification (HMTC) has been gaining popularity in recent years thanks to its applicability to a plethora of real-world applications. The existing HMTC algorithms largely focus on the design of classifiers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xinyi Zhang , Jiahao Xu , Charlie Soh , Lihui Chen

Identification of rhetorical roles like facts, arguments, and final judgments is central to understanding a legal case document and can lend power to other downstream tasks like legal case summarization and judgment prediction. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Purbid Bambroo , Subinay Adhikary , Paheli Bhattacharya , Abhijnan Chakraborty , Saptarshi Ghosh , Kripabandhu Ghosh

Multi-label text classification (MLC) is a challenging task in settings of large label sets, where label support follows a Zipfian distribution. In this paper, we address this problem through retrieval augmentation, aiming to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ilias Chalkidis , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) tasks in the medical domain often face the long-tail label distribution problem. Prior works have explored hierarchical label structures to find relevant information for few-shot classes, but mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xueren Ge , Satpathy Abhishek , Ronald Dean Williams , John A. Stankovic , Homa Alemzadeh

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across a range of natural language processing tasks, but their potential to generate harmful content has raised serious safety concerns. Current toxicity detectors primarily rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhiqiang Kou , Junyang Chen , Xin-Qiang Cai , Ming-Kun Xie , Biao Liu , Changwei Wang , Lei Feng , Yuheng Jia , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Xin Geng

Task specific fine-tuning of a pre-trained neural language model using a custom softmax output layer is the de facto approach of late when dealing with document classification problems. This technique is not adequate when labeled examples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Natraj Raman , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Sameena Shah , Manuela Veloso