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Measuring inter-dataset similarity is an important task in machine learning and data mining with various use cases and applications. Existing methods for measuring inter-dataset similarity are computationally expensive, limited, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Muhammad Rajabinasab , Anton D. Lautrup , Arthur Zimek

Legal document retrieval and judgment prediction are crucial tasks in intelligent legal systems. In practice, determining whether two documents share the same judgments is essential for establishing their relevance in legal retrieval.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Weicong Qin , Zelin Cao , Weijie Yu , Zihua Si , Sirui Chen , Jun Xu

Conformance checking techniques let us find out to what degree a process model and real execution data correspond to each other. In recent years, alignments have proven extremely useful in calculating conformance statistics. Most techniques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

In eDiscovery, a party to a lawsuit or similar action must search through available information to identify those documents and files that are relevant to the suit. Search efforts tend to identify less than 100% of the relevant documents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Herbert L. Roitblat

We present a very simple, unsupervised method for the pairwise matching of documents from heterogeneous collections. We demonstrate our method with the Concept-Project matching task, which is a binary classification task involving pairs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mark-Christoph Müller

Fact tracing seeks to identify specific training examples that serve as the knowledge source for a given query. Existing approaches to fact tracing rely on assessing the similarity between each training sample and the query along a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Si Chen , Feiyang Kang , Ning Yu , Ruoxi Jia

Predictive coding has been widely used in legal matters to find relevant or privileged documents in large sets of electronically stored information. It saves the time and cost significantly. Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Fusheng Wei , Han Qin , Shi Ye , Haozhen Zhao

This work addresses the challenge of capturing the complexities of legal knowledge by proposing a multi-layered embedding-based retrieval method for legal and legislative texts. Creating embeddings not only for individual articles but also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 João Alberto de Oliveira Lima

Due to the availability of references of research papers and the rich information contained in papers, various citation analysis approaches have been proposed to identify similar documents for scholar recommendation. Despite of the success…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Han Tian , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Arguments, counter-arguments, facts, and evidence obtained via documents related to previous court cases are of essential need for legal professionals. Therefore, the process of automatic information extraction from documents containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Gathika Ratnayaka , Thejan Rupasinghe , Nisansa de Silva , Viraj Salaka Gamage , Menuka Warushavithana , Amal Shehan Perera

Probabilistic topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been previously extended to the bilingual setting. A fundamental modeling assumption in several of these extensions is that the input corpora are in the form of document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

A typical information extraction pipeline consists of token- or span-level classification models coupled with a series of pre- and post-processing scripts. In a production pipeline, requirements often change, with classes being added and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ramon Pires , Fábio C. de Souza , Guilherme Rosa , Roberto A. Lotufo , Rodrigo Nogueira

We present a novel model for the problem of ranking a collection of documents according to their semantic similarity to a source (query) document. While the problem of document-to-document similarity ranking has been studied, most modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Dvir Ginzburg , Itzik Malkiel , Oren Barkan , Avi Caciularu , Noam Koenigstein

We present a method for the classification of multi-labelled text documents explicitly designed for data stream applications that require to process a virtually infinite sequence of data using constant memory and constant processing time.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ricardo Ñanculef , Ilias Flaounas , Nello Cristianini

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

In this extended abstract, we present an algorithm that learns a similarity measure between documents from the network topology of a structured corpus. We leverage the Scaled Dot-Product Attention, a recently proposed attention mechanism,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Robin Brochier , Adrien Guille , Julien Velcin

This paper addresses the task of legal summarization, which involves distilling complex legal documents into concise, coherent summaries. Current approaches often struggle with content theme deviation and inconsistent writing styles due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 T. Y. S. S. Santosh , Chen Jia , Patrick Goroncy , Matthias Grabmair

Today, with the emergence of semantic web technologies and increasing of information quantity, searching for information based on the semantic web has become a fertile area of research. For this reason, a large number of studies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Noreddine Gherabi , Abdelhadi Daoui , Abderrahim Marzouk

An interesting line of research in natural language processing (NLP) aims to incorporate linguistic typology to bridge linguistic diversity and assist the research of low-resource languages. While most works construct linguistic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Haotian Ye , Yihong Liu , Hinrich Schütze

The modern geographic information retrieval technology is based on quantitative models and methods. The semantic information in web documents and queries cannot be effectively represented, leading to information lost or misunderstanding so…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yong Gao , Lei Liu , Xing Lin , Yu Liu