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Protecting privileged communications and data from inadvertent disclosure is a paramount task in the US legal practice. Traditionally counsels rely on keyword searching and manual review to identify privileged documents in cases. As data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Haozhen Zhao , Shi Ye , Jingchao Yang

Obtaining large-scale annotated data for NLP tasks in the scientific domain is challenging and expensive. We release SciBERT, a pretrained language model based on BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) to address the lack of high-quality, large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Iz Beltagy , Kyle Lo , Arman Cohan

Recently many studies have been conducted on the topic of relation extraction. The DrugProt track at BioCreative VII provides a manually-annotated corpus for the purpose of the development and evaluation of relation extraction systems, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Anfu Tang , Louise Deléger , Robert Bossy , Pierre Zweigenbaum , Claire Nédellec

Contrastive learning has been used to learn a high-quality representation of the image in computer vision. However, contrastive learning is not widely utilized in natural language processing due to the lack of a general method of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Peng Su , Yifan Peng , K. Vijay-Shanker

The extraction of individual reference strings from the reference section of scientific publications is an important step in the citation extraction pipeline. Current approaches divide this task into two steps by first detecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Martin Körner

PaECTER is an open-source document-level encoder specific for patents. We fine-tune BERT for Patents with examiner-added citation information to generate numerical representations for patent documents. PaECTER performs better in similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mainak Ghosh , Michael E. Rose , Sebastian Erhardt , Erik Buunk , Dietmar Harhoff

The enormous growth of research publications has made it challenging for academic search engines to bring the most relevant papers against the given search query. Numerous solutions have been proposed over the years to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Shah Khalid , Shah Khusro , Aftab Alam , Abdul Wahid

The rapid evolution of AI technologies, exemplified by BERT-family models, has transformed scientific research, yet little is known about their production and recognition dynamics in the scientific system. This study investigates the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Likun Cao , Kai Li

In this paper, we report our method for the Information Extraction task in 2019 Language and Intelligence Challenge. We incorporate BERT into the multi-head selection framework for joint entity-relation extraction. This model extends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Weipeng Huang , Xingyi Cheng , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu

Computational chemistry develops fast in recent years due to the rapid growth and breakthroughs in AI. Thanks for the progress in natural language processing, researchers can extract more fine-grained knowledge in publications to stimulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Na Pang , Li Qian , Weimin Lyu , Jin-Dong Yang

With the tremendous growth in the number of scientific papers being published, searching for references while writing a scientific paper is a time-consuming process. A technique that could add a reference citation at the appropriate place…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Chanwoo Jeong , Sion Jang , Hyuna Shin , Eunjeong Park , Sungchul Choi

While composing a new document, anything from a news article to an email or essay, authors often utilize direct quotes from a variety of sources. Although an author may know what point they would like to make, selecting an appropriate quote…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Ansel MacLaughlin , Tao Chen , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Dan Roth

Representation learning is a critical ingredient for natural language processing systems. Recent Transformer language models like BERT learn powerful textual representations, but these models are targeted towards token- and sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Arman Cohan , Sergey Feldman , Iz Beltagy , Doug Downey , Daniel S. Weld

The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model has achieved the state-of-the-art performance for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Yet, limited research has been contributed to studying its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zimin Wan , Chenchen Xu , Hanna Suominen

Considering the rapidly increasing number of academic papers, searching for and citing appropriate references has become a non-trial task during the wiring of papers. Recommending a handful of candidate papers to a manuscript before…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yang Zhang , Qiang Ma

As a step toward better document-level understanding, we explore classification of a sequence of sentences into their corresponding categories, a task that requires understanding sentences in context of the document. Recent successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Arman Cohan , Iz Beltagy , Daniel King , Bhavana Dalvi , Daniel S. Weld

Domain specific search has always been a challenging information retrieval task due to several challenges such as the domain specific language, the unique task setting, as well as the lack of accessible queries and corresponding relevance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Sophia Althammer , Sebastian Hofstätter , Allan Hanbury

By adopting a citation-based recursive ranking method for patents the evolution of new fields of technology can be traced. Specifically, it is demonstrated that the laser / inkjet printer technology emerged from the recombination of two…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Péter Bruck , István Réthy , Judit Szente , Jan Tobochnik , Péter Érdi

In this paper we present a method to apply BERT to freedom to operate patent analysis and patent searches. According to the method, BERT is fine-tuned by training patent descriptions to the independent claims. Each description represents an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Michael Freunek , André Bodmer

We support scientific writers in determining whether a written sentence is scientific, to which section it belongs, and suggest paraphrasings to improve the sentence. Firstly, we propose a regression model trained on a corpus of scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Justin Mücke , Daria Waldow , Luise Metzger , Philipp Schauz , Marcel Hoffman , Nicolas Lell , Ansgar Scherp