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Deep learning models for natural language processing rely heavily on high-quality labeled datasets. However, existing labeling approaches often struggle to balance label quality with labeling cost. To address this challenge, we propose…

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Advances in Visually Rich Document Understanding (VrDU) have enabled information extraction and question answering over documents with complex layouts. Two tropes of architectures have emerged -- transformer-based models inspired by LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Dongsheng Wang , Zhiqiang Ma , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Kang Gu , Sameena Shah

Recognizing entities in texts is a central need in many information-seeking scenarios, and indeed, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is arguably one of the most successful examples of a widely adopted NLP task and corresponding NLP technology.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Uri Katz , Matan Vetzler , Amir DN Cohen , Yoav Goldberg

Named entity recognition (NER) is highly sensitive to sentential syntactic and semantic properties where entities may be extracted according to how they are used and placed in the running text. To model such properties, one could rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yuyang Nie , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song , Xiang Ao , Xiang Wan

Structured information extraction from document images usually consists of three steps: text detection, text recognition, and text field labeling. While text detection and text recognition have been heavily studied and improved a lot in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Mengli Cheng , Minghui Qiu , Xing Shi , Jun Huang , Wei Lin

This paper reports on modern approaches in Information Extraction (IE) and its two main sub-tasks of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE). Basic concepts and the most recent approaches in this area are reviewed, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Parisa Naderi Golshan , HosseinAli Rahmani Dashti , Shahrzad Azizi , Leila Safari

Document-level relation extraction aims to extract relations among entities within a document. Different from sentence-level relation extraction, it requires reasoning over multiple sentences across a document. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shuang Zeng , Runxin Xu , Baobao Chang , Lei Li

Document-level relation extraction aims at inferring structured human knowledge from textual documents. State-of-the-art methods for this task use pre-trained language models (LMs) via fine-tuning, yet fine-tuning is computationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yilmazcan Ozyurt , Stefan Feuerriegel , Ce Zhang

Document-level relation extraction aims to extract relations among multiple entity pairs from a document. Previously proposed graph-based or transformer-based models utilize the entities independently, regardless of global information among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Ningyu Zhang , Xiang Chen , Xin Xie , Shumin Deng , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Fei Huang , Luo Si , Huajun Chen

The recognition of named entities in visually-rich documents (VrD-NER) plays a critical role in various real-world scenarios and applications. However, the research in VrD-NER faces three major challenges: complex document layouts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yi Tu , Chong Zhang , Ya Guo , Huan Chen , Jinyang Tang , Huijia Zhu , Qi Zhang

Structured information extraction from scientific literature is crucial for capturing core concepts and emerging trends in specialized fields. While existing datasets aid model development, most focus on specific publication sections due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Decheng Duan , Yingyi Zhang , Jitong Peng , Chengzhi Zhang

A visually rich document (VRD) utilizes visual features along with linguistic cues to disseminate information. Training a custom extractor that identifies named entities from a document requires a large number of instances of the target…

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Large Language Models (LLM) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), improving state-of-the-art and exhibiting emergent capabilities across various tasks. However, their application in extracting information from visually rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Vincent Perot , Kai Kang , Florian Luisier , Guolong Su , Xiaoyu Sun , Ramya Sree Boppana , Zilong Wang , Zifeng Wang , Jiaqi Mu , Hao Zhang , Chen-Yu Lee , Nan Hua

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become powerful tools for annotating unstructured data. However, most existing workflows rely on ad hoc scripts, making reproducibility, robustness, and systematic evaluation difficult. To address these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Eric Fithian , Kirill Skobelev

Document-level RE requires reading, inferring and aggregating over multiple sentences. From our point of view, it is necessary for document-level RE to take advantage of multi-granularity inference information: entity level, sentence level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Hengzhu Tang , Yanan Cao , Zhenyu Zhang , Jiangxia Cao , Fang Fang , Shi Wang , Pengfei Yin

Extracting key information from documents, such as receipts or invoices, and preserving the interested texts to structured data is crucial in the document-intensive streamline processes of office automation in areas that includes but not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Xiaohui Zhao , Endi Niu , Zhuo Wu , Xiaoguang Wang

Extracting information from unstructured text documents is a demanding task, since these documents can have a broad variety of different layouts and a non-trivial reading order, like it is the case for multi-column documents or nested…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Matthias Engelbach , Dennis Klau , Jens Drawehn , Maximilien Kintz

Techniques for automatically extracting important content elements from business documents such as contracts, statements, and filings have the potential to make business operations more efficient. This problem can be formulated as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ruixue Zhang , Wei Yang , Luyun Lin , Zhengkai Tu , Yuqing Xie , Zihang Fu , Yuhao Xie , Luchen Tan , Kun Xiong , Jimmy Lin

This paper presents DWIE, the 'Deutsche Welle corpus for Information Extraction', a newly created multi-task dataset that combines four main Information Extraction (IE) annotation subtasks: (i) Named Entity Recognition (NER), (ii)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

Document-level relation extraction (RE) aims to extract the relations between entities from the input document that usually containing many difficultly-predicted entity pairs whose relations can only be predicted through relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Liang Zhang , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen , Zhongjian Miao , Zijun Min , Qingguo Hu , Xiaodong Shi