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Recent advancements in general-purpose or domain-specific multimodal large language models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable progress for medical decision-making. However, they are designated for specific classification or generative tasks,…

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The multi-format information extraction task in the 2021 Language and Intelligence Challenge is designed to comprehensively evaluate information extraction from different dimensions. It consists of an multiple slots relation extraction…

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Existing information retrieval (IR) models often assume a homogeneous format, limiting their applicability to diverse user needs, such as searching for images with text descriptions, searching for a news article with a headline image, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Cong Wei , Yang Chen , Haonan Chen , Hexiang Hu , Ge Zhang , Jie Fu , Alan Ritter , Wenhu Chen

This paper introduces our proposed system for the MIA Shared Task on Cross-lingual Open-retrieval Question Answering (COQA). In this challenging scenario, given an input question the system has to gather evidence documents from a…

Retrieval-based multimodal document QA aims to identify and integrate relevant information from visually rich documents with complex multimodal structures. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has shown strong performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hui Wu , Haoquan Zhai , Yuchen Li , Hengyi Cai , Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Lei Wang , Chunle Wang , Yingyan Hou , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) under knowledge editing (KE) has garnered significant attention in the era of large language models. However, existing models for MQA under KE exhibit poor performance when dealing with questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Keyuan Cheng , Gang Lin , Haoyang Fei , Yuxuan zhai , Lu Yu , Muhammad Asif Ali , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

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

Healthcare question answering assistance aims to provide customer healthcare information, which widely appears in both Web and mobile Internet. The questions usually require the assistance to have proficient healthcare background knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ye Liu , Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Cornelia Caragea , Philip S. Yu

With the rapid increase of multimedia data, a large body of literature has emerged to work on multimodal summarization, the majority of which target at refining salient information from textual and visual modalities to output a pictorial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Zhengkun Zhang , Xiaojun Meng , Yasheng Wang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Zhenglu Yang

One of the most widely used tasks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) is Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA). While open-ended question answering tasks are more challenging to evaluate, MCQA tasks are, in principle, easier to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Francesco Maria Molfese , Luca Moroni , Luca Gioffré , Alessandro Scirè , Simone Conia , Roberto Navigli

Extractive question answering (QA) systems can enable physicians and researchers to query medical records, a foundational capability for designing clinical studies and understanding patient medical history. However, building these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Joel Stremmel , Ardavan Saeedi , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Sanjit Batra , Jeffrey Hertzberg , Jaime Murillo , Eran Halperin

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered widespread attention from researchers due to their remarkable understanding and generation capabilities in visual language tasks (e.g., visual question answering). However, the rapid…

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In the era of loT (Internet of Things) we are surrounded by a plethora of Al enabled devices that can transcribe images, video, audio, and sensors signals into text descriptions. When such transcriptions are captured in activity reports for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ravi Choudhary , Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Erik Visser

Open Information Extraction (OIE) aims to extract objective structured knowledge from natural texts, which has attracted growing attention to build dedicated models with human experience. As the large language models (LLMs) have exhibited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Xiaozhi Wang , Jifan Yu , Kaisheng Zeng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Bin Xu

Multimodal retrieval has emerged as a promising yet challenging research direction in recent years. Most existing studies in multimodal retrieval focus on capturing information in multimodal data that is similar to their paired texts, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Delong Zeng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

We address prevailing challenges of the brain-powered research, departing from the observation that the literature hardly recover accurate spatial information and require subject-specific models. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Xia , Raoul de Charette , Cengiz Öztireli , Jing-Hao Xue

We introduce Memory-QA, a novel real-world task that involves answering recall questions about visual content from previously stored multimodal memories. This task poses unique challenges, including the creation of task-oriented memories,…

Large language models (LLMs) have grown in popularity due to their natural language interface and pre trained knowledge, leading to rapidly increasing success in question-answering (QA) tasks. More recently, multi-agent systems with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Bhrij Patel , Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models enhance understanding and interaction with audiovisual content, making it more accessible, searchable, and useful for a wide range of fields such as education, surveillance, entertainment, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Himanshu Patil , Geo Jolly , Ramana Raja Buddala , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rohit Saluja

Visual question answering (VQA) has emerged as a flexible approach for extracting specific pieces of information from document images. However, existing work typically queries each field in isolation, overlooking potential dependencies…

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