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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hadeel Al-Negheimish , Pranava Madhyastha , Alessandra Russo

We address the task of explaining relationships between two scientific documents using natural language text. This task requires modeling the complex content of long technical documents, deducing a relationship between these documents, and…

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Language enables humans to share knowledge, reason about the world, and pass on strategies for survival and innovation across generations. At the heart of this process is not just the ability to communicate but also the remarkable…

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Knowledge graphs (KGs) have the advantage of providing fine-grained detail for question-answering systems. Unfortunately, building a reliable KG is time-consuming and expensive as it requires human intervention. To overcome this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Seunghak Yu , Tianxing He , James Glass

Language models can be augmented with a context retriever to incorporate knowledge from large external databases. By leveraging retrieved context, the neural network does not have to memorize the massive amount of world knowledge within its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zonglin Li , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

In this paper, we present a proposal for an unsupervised algorithm, P-Summ, that generates an extractive summary of scientific scholarly text to meet the personal knowledge needs of the user. The method delves into the latent semantic space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alka Khurana , Vasudha Bhatnagar , Vikas Kumar

The difficulties of automatic extraction of definitions and methods from scientific documents lie in two aspects: (1) the complexity and diversity of natural language texts, which requests an analysis method to support the discovery of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yutian Sun , Hai Zhuge

In specialized fields like the scientific domain, constructing large-scale human-annotated datasets poses a significant challenge due to the need for domain expertise. Recent methods have employed large language models to generate synthetic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 SeongKu Kang , Bowen Jin , Wonbin Kweon , Yu Zhang , Dongha Lee , Jiawei Han , Hwanjo Yu

We present Contextual Query Rewrite (CQR) a dataset for multi-domain task-oriented spoken dialogue systems that is an extension of the Stanford dialog corpus (Eric et al., 2017a). While previous approaches have addressed the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Michael Regan , Pushpendre Rastogi , Arpit Gupta , Lambert Mathias

Scientific retrieval is essential for advancing scientific knowledge discovery. Within this process, document reranking plays a critical role in refining first-stage retrieval results. However, standard LLM listwise reranking faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Runchu Tian , Xueqiang Xu , Bowen Jin , SeongKu Kang , Jiawei Han

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artificial compositional generalization tasks such as SCAN. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Andrew Drozdov , Nathanael Schärli , Ekin Akyürek , Nathan Scales , Xinying Song , Xinyun Chen , Olivier Bousquet , Denny Zhou

Large language models augmented with task-relevant documents have demonstrated impressive performance on knowledge-intensive tasks. However, regarding how to obtain effective documents, the existing methods are mainly divided into two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhangyin Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Dezhi Zhao , Maojin Yang , Bing Qin

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are a popular way to document software development knowledge. As creating such documents is expensive, this paper presents an approach for automatically extracting FAQs from sources of software development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Stefan Henß , Martin Monperrus , Mira Mezini

Due to the nature of human language, historical documents are hard to comprehend by contemporary people. This limits their accessibility to scholars specialized in the time period in which the documents were written. Modernization aims at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Miguel Domingo , Francisco Casacuberta

In this paper, we propose a recent and under-researched paradigm for the task of event detection (ED) by casting it as a question-answering (QA) problem with the possibility of multiple answers and the support of entities. The extraction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Emanuela Boros , Jose G. Moreno , Antoine Doucet

Biomedical research results are being published at a high rate, and with existing search engines, the vast amount of published work is usually easily accessible. However, reproducing published results, either experimental data or…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-19 Kai-Wen Liang , Qinsi Wang , Cheryl Telmer , Divyaa Ravichandran , Peter Spirtes , Natasa Miskov-Zivanov

Mainstream knowledge management researchers generally agree that knowledge extracted from unstructured data and semi-structured data have become imperative for organizational strategic decision making. In this research, we develop a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Gerald Onwujekwe , Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson , Nnatubemugo Ngwum

With the explosive growth of scientific publications, making the synthesis of scientific knowledge and fact checking becomes an increasingly complex task. In this paper, we propose a multi-task approach for verifying the scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Loïc Rakotoson , Charles Letaillieur , Sylvain Massip , Fréjus Laleye

Scientific documents contain complex multimodal structures, which makes evidence localization and scientific reasoning in Document Visual Question Answering particularly challenging. However, most existing benchmarks evaluate models only at…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenhan Yu , Zhaoxi Zhang , Wang Chen , Guanqiang Qi , Weikang Li , Lei Sha , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang

Generating paraphrases, that is, different variations of a sentence conveying the same meaning, is an important yet challenging task in NLP. Automatically generating paraphrases has its utility in many NLP tasks like question answering,…

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