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The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a multitude of application opportunities. One traditional task for Information Retrieval systems is the summarization and classification of texts, both of which are important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Oliver Hummel

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

The proliferation of complex structured data in hybrid sources, such as PDF documents and web pages, presents unique challenges for current Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in providing accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shivani Upadhyay , Messiah Ataey , Syed Shariyar Murtaza , Yifan Nie , Jimmy Lin

We explore the ability of two LLMs -- GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 -- to transcribe historical handwritten documents in a tabular format and compare their performance to traditional OCR/HTR systems: EasyOCR, Keras, Pytesseract, and TrOCR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Seorin Kim , Julien Baudru , Wouter Ryckbosch , Hugues Bersini , Vincent Ginis

Large Language Model (LLMs) can be used to write or modify documents, presenting a challenge for understanding the intent behind their use. For example, benign uses may involve using LLM on a human-written document to improve its grammar or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yitong Wang , Zhongping Zhang , Margherita Piana , Zheng Zhou , Peter Gerstoft , Bryan A. Plummer

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new potential for automating documentation-to-code traceability, yet their capabilities remain underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation of LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o3-mini) in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ebube Alor , SayedHassan Khatoonabadi , Emad Shihab

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in Machine Translation (MT). However, careful evaluations by human reveal that the translations produced by LLMs still contain multiple errors. Importantly, feeding back such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zhaopeng Feng , Yan Zhang , Hao Li , Bei Wu , Jiayu Liao , Wenqiang Liu , Jun Lang , Yang Feng , Jian Wu , Zuozhu Liu

The record of the beginning of the most widespread legal system in the world is contained in millions of pages of handwritten text. Most of the records of the first centuries of the Anglo-American legal system are hand-written in a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Michael Zhang , Elise Wang , Charlotte Whatley , Seth Strickland , Dylan Bannon

This paper deals with the task of practical and open source Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on German medieval manuscripts. We report on our efforts to construct mixed recognition models which can be applied out-of-the-box without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Christian Reul , Stefan Tomasek , Florian Langhanki , Uwe Springmann

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) enhance the potential of natural language processing. However, their actual impact on document information extraction remains unclear. In particular, it is unclear whether an MLLM-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiyuan Shen , Peiyue Yuan , Atin Ghosh , Yifan Mai , Daniel Dahlmeier

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in replicating human tasks and boosting productivity. However, their direct application for data extraction presents limitations due to a prioritisation of fluency over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Aman Ahluwalia , Suhrud Wani

The paper discusses an approach to decipher large collections of handwritten index cards of historical dictionaries. Our study provides a working solution that reads the cards, and links their lemmas to a searchable list of dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jan Idziak , Artjoms Šeļa , Michał Woźniak , Albert Leśniak , Joanna Byszuk , Maciej Eder

The transcription of medical monologues, especially those containing a high density of specialized terminology and delivered with a distinct accent, presents a significant challenge for existing automated systems. This paper introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jiafeng Li , Yanda Mu

By augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools, their capacity to solve complex problems has been significantly enhanced. However, despite ongoing advancements in the parsing capabilities of LLMs, incorporating all available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hang Gao , Yongfeng Zhang

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

The arrival of handwriting recognition technologies offers new possibilities for research in heritage studies. However, it is now necessary to reflect on the experiences and the practices developed by research teams. Our use of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Beatrice Couture , Farah Verret , Maxime Gohier , Dominique Deslandres

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

The use of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-4 in technical customer support (TCS) has the potential to revolutionize this area. This study examines automated text correction, summarization of customer inquiries and question…

General Economics · Economics 2024-06-04 Jochen Wulf , Jürg Meierhofer

Property graphs are widely used in domains such as healthcare, finance, and social networks, but they often contain errors due to inconsistencies, missing data, or schema violations. Traditional rule-based and heuristic-driven graph repair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hrishikesh Terdalkar , Angela Bonifati , Andrea Mauri

The creation of systematic literature reviews (SLR) is critical for analyzing the landscape of a research field and guiding future research directions. However, retrieving and filtering the literature corpus for an SLR is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Joos , Daniel A. Keim , Maximilian T. Fischer