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Since real-world ubiquitous documents (e.g., invoices, tickets, resumes and leaflets) contain rich information, automatic document image understanding has become a hot topic. Most existing works decouple the problem into two separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Peng Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Jing Lu , Liang Qiao , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Although great progress has been made by previous table understanding methods including recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs), they rely heavily on the premise that given tables must be converted into a certain text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Mingyu Zheng , Xinwei Feng , Qingyi Si , Qiaoqiao She , Zheng Lin , Wenbin Jiang , Weiping Wang

The task of condensing large chunks of textual information into concise and structured tables has gained attention recently due to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their potential benefit for downstream tasks, such as text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zheye Deng , Chunkit Chan , Weiqi Wang , Yuxi Sun , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

Generating sports game reports from structured tables is a complex table-to-text task that demands both precise data interpretation and fluent narrative generation. Traditional model-based approaches require large, annotated datasets, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shang-Hsuan Chiang , Tsan-Tsung Yang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

In talent management systems, critical information often resides in complex tabular formats, presenting significant retrieval challenges for conventional language models. These challenges are pronounced when processing Talent documentation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Varun Mannam , Fang Wang , Chaochun Liu , Xin Chen

To solve the problem of redundant information and overlapping relations of the entity and relation extraction model, we propose a joint extraction model. This model can directly extract multiple pairs of related entities without generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuanhao Shen , Jungang Han

As the amount of data on the World Wide Web continues to grow exponentially, access to semantically structured information remains limited. The Semantic Web has emerged as a solution to enhance the machine-readability of data, making it…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Muhammad Zohaib

We propose a novel document generation process based on hierarchical latent tree models (HLTMs) learned from data. An HLTM has a layer of observed word variables at the bottom and multiple layers of latent variables on top. For each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Peixian Chen , Zhourong Chen , Nevin L. Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) encode a large amount of world knowledge. However, as such knowledge is frozen at the time of model training, the models become static and limited by the training data at that time. In order to further improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junyi Li , Tianyi Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jingyuan Wang , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Tabular data is prevalent across various industries, necessitating significant time and effort for users to understand and manipulate for their information-seeking purposes. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yilun Zhao , Haowei Zhang , Shengyun Si , Linyong Nan , Xiangru Tang , Arman Cohan

The challenge of information extraction (IE) lies in the diversity of label schemas and the heterogeneity of structures. Traditional methods require task-specific model design and rely heavily on expensive supervision, making them difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jie Lou , Yaojie Lu , Dai Dai , Wei Jia , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hua Wu

The visual layout of a webpage can provide valuable clues for certain types of Information Extraction (IE) tasks. In traditional rule based IE frameworks, these layout cues are mapped to rules that operate on the HTML source of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Prasad M Desphande , Raghu Krishnapuram , Ramakrishna Varadarajan , Knut Stolze

Information Extraction is a well-researched area of Natural Language Processing with applications in web search and question answering concerned with identifying entities and relationships between them as expressed in a given context,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Erin Macdonald , Denilson Barbosa

Tabular reasoning involves interpreting natural language queries about tabular data, which presents a unique challenge of combining language understanding with structured data analysis. Existing methods employ either textual reasoning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nikhil Abhyankar , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth , Chandan K. Reddy

Tables present summarized and structured information to the reader, which makes table structure extraction an important part of document understanding applications. However, table structure identification is a hard problem not only because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Saqib Ali Khan , Syed Muhammad Daniyal Khalid , Muhammad Ali Shahzad , Faisal Shafait

Given that substantial amounts of domain-specific knowledge are stored in structured formats, such as web data organized through HTML, Large Language Models (LLMs) are expected to fully comprehend this structured information to broaden…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sirui Huang , Hanqian Li , Yanggan Gu , Xuming Hu , Qing Li , Guandong Xu

In many industries, as well as in academic research, information is primarily transmitted in the form of unstructured documents (this article, for example). Hierarchically-related data is rendered as tables, and extracting information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Nataliya Le Vine , Claus Horn , Matthew Zeigenfuse , Mark Rowan

Modern web scraping struggles with dynamic, interactive websites that require more than static HTML parsing. Current methods are often brittle and require manual customization for each site. To address this, we introduce Webscraper, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Guan-Lun Huang , Yuh-Jzer Joung

Europe's healthcare systems require enhanced interoperability and digitalization, driving a demand for innovative solutions to process legacy clinical data. This paper presents the results of our project, which aims to leverage Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aynur Guluzade , Naguib Heiba , Zeyd Boukhers , Florim Hamiti , Jahid Hasan Polash , Yehya Mohamad , Carlos A Velasco

A significant portion of the data available today is found within tables. Therefore, it is necessary to use automated table extraction to obtain thorough results when data-mining. Today's popular state-of-the-art methods for table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zach Colter , Morteza Fayazi , Zineb Benameur-El , Serafina Kamp , Shuyan Yu , Ronald Dreslinski