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We study automatic question generation for sentences from text passages in reading comprehension. We introduce an attention-based sequence learning model for the task and investigate the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Xinya Du , Junru Shao , Claire Cardie

The generation of precise and detailed Table-Of-Contents (TOC) from a document is a problem of major importance for document understanding and information extraction. Despite its importance, it is still a challenging task, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Najah-Imane Bentabet , Rémi Juge , Sira Ferradans

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advances in reasoning capabilities. However, their performance remains constrained by limited access to explicit and structured domain knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Junlin Wu , Xianrui Zhong , Jiashuo Sun , Bolian Li , Bowen Jin , Jiawei Han , Qingkai Zeng

Long-form question answering (LFQA) poses a challenge as it involves generating detailed answers in the form of paragraphs, which go beyond simple yes/no responses or short factual answers. While existing QA models excel in questions with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Pritom Saha Akash , Kashob Kumar Roy , Lucian Popa , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

The growing complexity of legal cases has lead to an increasing interest in legal information retrieval systems that can effectively satisfy user-specific information needs. However, such downstream systems typically require documents to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dennis Aumiller , Satya Almasian , Sebastian Lackner , Michael Gertz

Table-to-text generation aims to generate a description for a factual table which can be viewed as a set of field-value records. To encode both the content and the structure of a table, we propose a novel structure-aware seq2seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tianyu Liu , Kexiang Wang , Lei Sha , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Generating an article automatically with computer program is a challenging task in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In this paper, we target at essay generation, which takes as input a topic word in mind and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Bing Qin , Duyu Tang , Xinwei Geng , Dandan Ning , Jiahao Liu , Ting Liu

In this paper, we study the task of improving the cohesion and coherence of long-form text generated by language models. To this end, we propose RSTGen, a framework that utilises Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), a classical language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rilwan A. Adewoyin , Ritabrata Dutta , Yulan He

Natural language question answering over knowledge graphs is an important and interesting task as it enables common users to gain accurate answers in an easy and intuitive manner. However, it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Weiguo Zheng , Mei Zhang

Generating queries corresponding to natural language questions is a long standing problem. Traditional methods lack language flexibility, while newer sequence-to-sequence models require large amount of data. Schema-agnostic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Amol Kelkar , Nachiketa Rajpurohit , Utkarsh Mittal , Peter Relan

Recent neural models for data-to-document generation have achieved remarkable progress in producing fluent and informative texts. However, large proportions of generated texts do not actually conform to the input data. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Feng Nie , Hailin Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Jin-Ge Yao , Chin-Yew Lin , Rong Pan

Recent advancements in data-to-text generation largely take on the form of neural end-to-end systems. Efforts have been dedicated to improving text generation systems by changing the order of training samples in a process known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Hui-Syuan Yeh , Vera Demberg

Argument Mining(AM) aims to uncover the argumentative structures within a text. Previous methods require several subtasks, such as span identification, component classification, and relation classification. Consequently, these methods need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Masayuki Kawarada , Tsutomu Hirao , Wataru Uchida , Masaaki Nagata

Two fundamental challenges face generative models in engineering applications: the acquisition of high-performing, diverse datasets, and the adherence to precise constraints in generated designs. We propose a novel approach combining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Adam Gaier , James Stoddart , Lorenzo Villaggi , Shyam Sudhakaran

Open-ended text generation has become a prominent task in natural language processing due to the rise of powerful (large) language models. However, evaluating the quality of these models and the employed decoding strategies remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Esteban Garces Arias , Hannah Blocher , Julian Rodemann , Meimingwei Li , Christian Heumann , Matthias Aßenmacher

Explanatory images play a pivotal role in accessible and easy-to-read (E2R) texts. However, the images available in online databases are not tailored toward the respective texts, and the creation of customized images is expensive. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Miriam Anschütz , Tringa Sylaj , Georg Groh

Recent years have seen an explosion of work and interest in text-to-3D shape generation. Much of the progress is driven by advances in 3D representations, large-scale pretraining and representation learning for text and image data enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Han-Hung Lee , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing with their remarkable capabilities in text generation and reasoning. However, these models face critical challenges when deployed in real-world applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pengcheng Jiang , Siru Ouyang , Yizhu Jiao , Ming Zhong , Runchu Tian , Jiawei Han

The goal of text generation is to make machines express in human language. It is one of the most important yet challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Since 2014, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wenhao Yu , Chenguang Zhu , Zaitang Li , Zhiting Hu , Qingyun Wang , Heng Ji , Meng Jiang

Grounding dialogue generation by extra knowledge has shown great potentials towards building a system capable of replying with knowledgeable and engaging responses. Existing studies focus on how to synthesize a response with proper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xueliang Zhao , Tingchen Fu , Chongyang Tao , Wei Wu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan