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Publication databases rely on accurate metadata extraction from diverse web sources, yet variations in web layouts and data formats present challenges for metadata providers. This paper introduces CRAWLDoc, a new method for contextual…

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Enterprise documents, such as forms and reports, embed critical information for downstream applications like data archiving, automated workflows, and analytics. Although generalist Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on established…

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Developing document understanding models at enterprise scale requires large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets spanning a wide range of document types. However, collecting such data is prohibitively expensive due to privacy constraints,…

Multimodal retrieval-augmented Generation (MM-RAG) is a key approach for applying large language models (LLMs) and agents to real-world knowledge bases, yet current evaluations are fragmented -- focusing on either text or images in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xiangyu Peng , Can Qin , Zeyuan Chen , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Document Layout analysis (DLA), is the process by which a page is parsed into meaningful elements, often using machine learning models. Typically, the quality of a model is judged using general object detection metrics such as IoU, F1 or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Bourne , Mwiza Simbeye , Ishtar Govia

A practical text-to-SQL system should generalize well on a wide variety of natural language questions, unseen database schemas, and novel SQL query structures. To comprehensively evaluate text-to-SQL systems, we introduce a UNIfied…

Information Extraction (IE) from the tables present in scientific articles is challenging due to complicated tabular representations and complex embedded text. This paper presents TabLeX, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Harsh Desai , Pratik Kayal , Mayank Singh

Various tasks, such as summarization, multi-hop question answering, or coreference resolution, are naturally phrased over collections of real-world documents. Such tasks present a unique set of challenges, revolving around the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Gili Lior , Avi Caciularu , Arie Cattan , Shahar Levy , Ori Shapira , Gabriel Stanovsky

In this paper, we aim to enhance the robustness of Universal Information Extraction (UIE) by introducing a new benchmark dataset, a comprehensive evaluation, and a feasible solution. Existing robust benchmark datasets have two key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jizhao Zhu , Akang Shi , Zixuan Li , Long Bai , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

The Document Set Expansion (DSE) task involves identifying relevant documents from large collections based on a limited set of example documents. Previous research has highlighted Positive and Unlabeled (PU) learning as a promising approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Haiyang Zhang , Qiuyi Chen , Yuanjie Zou , Yushan Pan , Jia Wang , Mark Stevenson

The detection of cracks is a crucial task in monitoring structural health and ensuring structural safety. The manual process of crack detection is time-consuming and subjective to the inspectors. Several researchers have tried tackling this…

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In electronic design, engineers often manually search through extensive documents to retrieve component parameters required for constructing SPICE models, a process that is both labor-intensive and time-consuming. To address this challenge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hong Cai Chen , Yi Pin Xu , Yang Zhang

Improving data quality in unstructured documents is a long-standing challenge. Unstructured data, especially in textual form, inherently lacks defined semantics, which poses significant challenges for effective processing and for ensuring…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Besat Kassaie , Frank Wm. Tompa

Recently, automatically extracting information from visually rich documents (e.g., tickets and resumes) has become a hot and vital research topic due to its widespread commercial value. Most existing methods divide this task into two…

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Business Document Information Extraction (BDIE) is the problem of transforming a blob of unstructured information (raw text, scanned documents, etc.) into a structured format that downstream systems can parse and use. It has two main tasks:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Franz Louis Cesista , Rui Aguiar , Jason Kim , Paolo Acilo

With the development of data-centric AI, the focus has shifted from model-driven approaches to improving data quality. Academic literature, as one of the crucial types, is predominantly stored in PDF formats and needs to be parsed into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Huawei Ji , Cheng Deng , Bo Xue , Zhouyang Jin , Jiaxin Ding , Xiaoying Gan , Luoyi Fu , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Reliably extracting tables from PDFs is essential for large-scale scientific data mining and knowledge base construction, yet existing evaluation approaches rely on rule-based metrics that fail to capture semantic equivalence of table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Pius Horn , Janis Keuper

Recent advances in machine learning have significantly impacted the field of information extraction, with Language Models (LMs) playing a pivotal role in extracting structured information from unstructured text. Prior works typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Haolun Wu , Ye Yuan , Liana Mikaelyan , Alexander Meulemans , Xue Liu , James Hensman , Bhaskar Mitra

Deep Research systems have revolutionized how LLMs solve complex questions through iterative reasoning and evidence gathering. However, current systems remain fundamentally constrained to textual web data, overlooking the vast knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kuicai Dong , Shurui Huang , Fangda Ye , Wei Han , Zhi Zhang , Dexun Li , Wenjun Li , Qu Yang , Gang Wang , Yichao Wang , Chen Zhang , Yong Liu

Multimodal documents contain diverse elements, such as tables, figures, and layouts, which can complicate retrieval tasks. While current approaches typically combine dense visual embedding models with supervised rerankers to achieve…

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