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Although automated harmful content detection systems are frequently used to monitor online platforms, moderators and end users frequently cannot understand the logic underlying their predictions. While recent studies have focused on…

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Document understanding aims to perform question answering and information extraction over document images, where the visual content is highly information-dense and most queries rely on only a few relevant layout regions. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ye Mo , Kai Ye , Xianwei Mao , Zirui Shao , Gang Huang , Bo Zhang , Hangdi Xing , Kehan Chen , Huan Zhou , Zixu Yan , Jiajun Bu , Sheng Zhou

The task of rationalization aims to extract pieces of input text as rationales to justify neural network predictions on text classification tasks. By definition, rationales represent key text pieces used for prediction and thus should have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yongfeng Huang , Yujun Chen , Yulun Du , Zhilin Yang

Several methods have been proposed for classifying long textual documents using Transformers. However, there is a lack of consensus on a benchmark to enable a fair comparison among different approaches. In this paper, we provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hyunji Hayley Park , Yogarshi Vyas , Kashif Shah

The large size and complex decision mechanisms of state-of-the-art text classifiers make it difficult for humans to understand their predictions, leading to a potential lack of trust by the users. These issues have led to the adoption of…

A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly relied upon for transparency and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mosh Levy , Zohar Elyoseph , Yoav Goldberg

Interpretability is a topic that has been in the spotlight for the past few years. Most existing interpretability techniques produce interpretations in the form of rules or feature importance. These interpretations, while informative, may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nikolaos Mylonas , Nikolaos Stylianou , Theodora Tsikrika , Stefanos Vrochidis , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Document AI, or Document Intelligence, is a relatively new research topic that refers to the techniques for automatically reading, understanding, and analyzing business documents. It is an important research direction for natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Lei Cui , Yiheng Xu , Tengchao Lv , Furu Wei

Given a patent document, identifying distinct semantic annotations is an interesting research aspect. Text annotation helps the patent practitioners such as examiners and patent attorneys to quickly identify the key arguments of any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Renukswamy Chikkamath , Vishvapalsinhji Ramsinh Parmar , Christoph Hewel , Markus Endres

Acquiring and training on large-scale labeled data can be impractical due to cost constraints. Additionally, the use of small training datasets can result in considerable variability in model outcomes, overfitting, and learning of spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiashu Tao , Reza Shokri

In this paper, we explore how to efficiently combine crowdsourcing and machine intelligence for the problem of document screening, where we need to screen documents with a set of machine-learning filters. Specifically, we focus on building…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Evgeny Krivosheev , Burcu Sayin , Alessandro Bozzon , Zoltán Szlávik

While humans can extract information from unstructured text with high precision and recall, this is often too time-consuming to be practical. Automated approaches, on the other hand, produce nearly-immediate results, but may not be reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Bradley Butcher , Miri Zilka , Darren Cook , Jiri Hron , Adrian Weller

Explainable AI is an emerging field providing solutions for acquiring insights into automated systems' rationale. It has been put on the AI map by suggesting ways to tackle key ethical and societal issues. Existing explanation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Ioannis Mollas , Nick Bassiliades , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Interpretable representations are the backbone of many explainers that target black-box predictive systems based on artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They translate the low-level data representation necessary for good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

Resource-constrained classification tasks are common in real-world applications such as allocating tests for disease diagnosis, hiring decisions when filling a limited number of positions, and defect detection in manufacturing settings…

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Legal judgment prediction is essential for enhancing judicial efficiency. In this work, we identify that existing large language models (LLMs) underperform in this domain due to challenges in understanding case complexities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chenlong Deng , Kelong Mao , Yuyao Zhang , Zhicheng Dou

Text classification stands as a cornerstone within the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly when viewed through computer science and engineering. The past decade has seen deep learning revolutionize text classification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Marco Siino , Ilenia Tinnirello , Marco La Cascia

Topic model and document-clustering evaluations either use automated metrics that align poorly with human preferences or require expert labels that are intractable to scale. We design a scalable human evaluation protocol and a corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Alexander Hoyle , Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Philip Resnik

Automatic text simplification (TS) aims to automate the process of rewriting text to make it easier for people to read. A pre-requisite for TS to be useful is that it should convey information that is consistent with the meaning of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Sweta Agrawal , Marine Carpuat

Legal case retrieval for sourcing similar cases is critical in upholding judicial fairness. Different from general web search, legal case retrieval involves processing lengthy, complex, and highly specialized legal documents. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chenlong Deng , Kelong Mao , Zhicheng Dou