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Requirements identification in textual documents or extraction is a tedious and error prone task that many researchers suggest automating. We manually annotated the PURE dataset and thus created a new one containing both requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Vladimir Ivanov , Andrey Sadovykh , Alexandr Naumchev , Alessandra Bagnato , Kirill Yakovlev

Term extraction is an information extraction task at the root of knowledge discovery platforms. Developing term extractors that are able to generalize across very diverse and potentially highly technical domains is challenging, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Francesco Fusco , Peter Staar , Diego Antognini

Many ways of annotating a dataset for machine learning classification tasks that go beyond the usual class labels exist in practice. These are of interest as they can simplify or facilitate the collection of annotations, while not greatly…

Automated testing plays a crucial role in ensuring software security. It heavily relies on formal specifications to validate the correctness of the system behavior. However, the main approach to defining these formal specifications is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hui Li , Zhen Dong , Siao Wang , Hui Zhang , Liwei Shen , Xin Peng , Dongdong She

Legal contracts govern much of our society, but their specialized language is difficult for non-experts to read. While AI has enabled simplification of complex language, legal contracts pose unique challenges because of their connection to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ziheng Huang , Tal August , Hari Sundaram

High annotation costs from hiring or crowdsourcing complicate the creation of large, high-quality datasets needed for training reliable text classifiers. Recent research suggests using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Tomas Horych , Christoph Mandl , Terry Ruas , Andre Greiner-Petter , Bela Gipp , Akiko Aizawa , Timo Spinde

This document presents Annotated English, a system of diacritical symbols which turns English pronunciation into a precise and unambiguous process. The annotations are defined and located in such a way that the original English text is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Jose Hernandez-Orallo

This paper present the practice of data annotation from the perspective of the annotators. Data is fundamental to ML models. This paper investigates the work practices concerning data annotation as performed in the industry, in India.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ding Wang , Shantanu Prabhat , Nithya Sambasivan

Machine learning has been utilized to perform tasks in many different domains such as classification, object detection, image segmentation and natural language analysis. Data labeling has always been one of the most important tasks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Shikun Zhang , Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar

Annotation is the labeling of data by human effort. Annotation is critical to modern machine learning, and Bloomberg has developed years of experience of annotation at scale. This report captures a wealth of wisdom for applied annotation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Tina Tseng , Amanda Stent , Domenic Maida

Understanding fine-grained links between documents is crucial for many applications, yet progress is limited by the lack of efficient methods for data curation. To address this limitation, we introduce a domain-agnostic framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Serwar Basch , Ilia Kuznetsov , Tom Hope , Iryna Gurevych

Extracting information from full documents is an important problem in many domains, but most previous work focus on identifying relationships within a sentence or a paragraph. It is challenging to create a large-scale information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sarthak Jain , Madeleine van Zuylen , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Iz Beltagy

Many legal professionals think that the explosion of information about local, regional, national, and international legislation makes their practice more costly, time-consuming, and even error-prone. The two main reasons for this are that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Jorge Martinez-Gil

Automated decision support can accelerate tedious tasks as users can focus their attention where it is needed most. However, a key concern is whether users overly trust or cede agency to automation. In this paper, we investigate the effects…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ariel Levy , Monica Agrawal , Arvind Satyanarayan , David Sontag

Extracting key information from documents represents a large portion of business workloads and therefore offers a high potential for efficiency improvements and process automation. With recent advances in Deep Learning, a plethora of Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Alexander Michael Rombach , Peter Fettke

A wealth of Open Educational Resources is now available, and beyond the first and evident problem of finding them, the issue of articulating a set of resources is arising. When using audiovisual resources, among different possibilities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Olivier Aubert , Joscha Jaeger

Current language understanding approaches focus on small documents, such as newswire articles, blog posts, product reviews and discussion forum entries. Understanding and extracting information from large documents like legal briefs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

Many annotation tools have been developed, covering a wide variety of tasks and providing features like user management, pre-processing, and automatic labeling. However, all of these tools use Graphical User Interfaces, and often require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

This paper concerns an Information Extraction process for building a dynamic Legislation Network from legal documents. Unlike supervised learning approaches which require additional calculations, the idea here is to apply Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Neda Sakhaee , Mark C Wilson

Data mining is about obtaining new knowledge from existing datasets. However, the data in the existing datasets can be scattered, noisy, and even incomplete. Although lots of effort is spent on developing or fine-tuning data mining models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Canchen Li