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This paper explores the possibility to exploit text on the world wide web in order to enrich the concepts in existing ontologies. First, a method to retrieve documents from the WWW related to a concept is described. These document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Eneko Agirre , Olatz Ansa , Eduard Hovy , David Martinez

Events and entities are closely related; entities are often actors or participants in events and events without entities are uncommon. The interpretation of events and entities is highly contextually dependent. Existing work in information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Bishan Yang , Tom Mitchell

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in sentence-level machine translation, but scaling to document-level translation remains challenging, particularly in modeling long-range dependencies and discourse phenomena…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Miguel Moura Ramos , Patrick Fernandes , Sweta Agrawal , André F. T. Martins

Entity alignment has always had significant uses within a multitude of diverse scientific fields. In particular, the concept of matching entities across networks has grown in significance in the world of social science as communicative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 James Flamino , Christopher Abriola , Ben Zimmerman , Zhongheng Li , Joel Douglas

Entity-aware image captioning aims to describe named entities and events related to the image by utilizing the background knowledge in the associated article. This task remains challenging as it is difficult to learn the association between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Wentian Zhao , Yao Hu , Heda Wang , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), more and more researchers have paid attention to information extraction based on LLMs. However, there are still some spaces to improve in the existing related methods. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiang Liu , Ge Qiu , Hao Fei , Dongdong Xie , Jinbo Li , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

A notable challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is the extremely-long length of the input. In this paper, we present an extract-then-abstract Transformer framework to overcome the problem. Specifically, we leverage pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yun-Zhu Song , Yi-Syuan Chen , Hong-Han Shuai

Modeling user interfaces (UIs) from visual information allows systems to make inferences about the functionality and semantics needed to support use cases in accessibility, app automation, and testing. Current datasets for training machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jason Wu , Siyan Wang , Siman Shen , Yi-Hao Peng , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Recent advances in large language models enable documents to be represented as dense semantic embeddings, supporting similarity-based operations over large text collections. However, many web-scale systems still rely on flat clustering or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thomas Haschka , Joseph Bakarji

The broad goal of information extraction is to derive structured information from unstructured data. However, most existing methods focus solely on text, ignoring other types of unstructured data such as images, video and audio which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Robert L. Logan , Samuel Humeau , Sameer Singh

Over the past few decades, the amount of scientific articles and technical literature has increased exponentially in size. Consequently, there is a great need for systems that can ingest these documents at scale and make their content…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Peter W J Staar , Michele Dolfi , Christoph Auer , Costas Bekas

Entity extraction is fundamental to many text mining tasks such as organisation name recognition. A popular approach to entity extraction is based on matching sub-string candidates in a document against a dictionary of entities. To handle…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Zeyi Wen , Dong Deng , Rui Zhang , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

In this paper, we analyze the nature and distribution of structured data on the Web. Web-scale information extraction, or the problem of creating structured tables using extraction from the entire web, is gathering lots of research…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Nilesh Dalvi , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Bo Pang

Extreme multi-label text classification (XMTC) is the task of tagging each document with the relevant labels from a very large space of predefined categories. Recently, large pre-trained Transformer models have made significant performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ruohong Zhang , Yau-Shian Wang , Yiming Yang , Tom Vu , Likun Lei

We present an ensemble approach for categorizing search query entities in the recruitment domain. Understanding the types of entities expressed in a search query (Company, Skill, Job Title, etc.) enables more intelligent information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Shalaby , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Mohammed Korayem , Trey Grainger

Since real-world ubiquitous documents (e.g., invoices, tickets, resumes and leaflets) contain rich information, automatic document image understanding has become a hot topic. Most existing works decouple the problem into two separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Peng Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Jing Lu , Liang Qiao , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pranav Janjani , Mayank Palan , Sarvesh Shirude , Ninad Shegokar , Sunny Kumar , Faruk Kazi

In standard methodology for natural language processing, entities in text are typically embedded in dense vector spaces with pre-trained models. The embeddings produced this way are effective when fed into downstream models, but they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yasumasa Onoe , Greg Durrett

Text-rich visual understanding-the ability to process environments where dense textual content is integrated with visuals-is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interact effectively with structured environments. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Junpeng Liu , Tianyue Ou , Yifan Song , Yuxiao Qu , Wai Lam , Chenyan Xiong , Wenhu Chen , Graham Neubig , Xiang Yue

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-based techniques encounter challenges in capturing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Melkamu Abay Mersha , Mesay Gemeda yigezu , Jugal Kalita