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Understanding complex multimodal documents remains challenging due to their structural inconsistencies and limited training data availability. We introduce \textit{DocsRay}, a training-free document understanding system that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Hyeon Seong Jeong , Sangwoo Jo , Byeong Hyun Yoon , Yoonseok Heo , Haedong Jeong , Taehoon Kim

Document-level machine translation conditions on surrounding sentences to produce coherent translations. There has been much recent work in this area with the introduction of custom model architectures and decoding algorithms. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Zhiyi Ma , Sergey Edunov , Michael Auli

Determining the readability of a text is the first step to its simplification. In this paper, we present a readability analysis tool capable of analyzing text written in the Bengali language to provide in-depth information on its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Susmoy Chakraborty , Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Wasi Uddin Ahmad

Readability is a key concept in the current era of abundant written information. To help making texts more readable and make information more accessible to everyone, a line of researched aims at making texts accessible for their target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Rémi Cardon , A. Seza Doğruöz

The paper presents a first attempt towards unsupervised neural text simplification that relies only on unlabeled text corpora. The core framework is composed of a shared encoder and a pair of attentional-decoders and gains knowledge of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Sai Surya , Abhijit Mishra , Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Summarizing text-rich documents has been long studied in the literature, but most of the existing efforts have been made to summarize a static and predefined multi-document set. With the rapid development of online platforms for generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Susik Yoon , Hou Pong Chan , Jiawei Han

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…

Text summarization is the research area aiming at creating a short and condensed version of the original document, which conveys the main idea of the document in a few words. This research topic has started to attract the attention of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shen Gao , Xiuying Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Natural language processing technology has rapidly improved automated grammatical error correction tasks, and the community begins to explore document-level revision as one of the next challenges. To go beyond sentence-level automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Masato Mita , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Masato Hagiwara , Tomoya Mizumoto , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Although the Transformer translation model (Vaswani et al., 2017) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of translation tasks, how to use document-level context to deal with discourse phenomena problematic for Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Min Zhang , Yang Liu

Much of modern-day text simplification research focuses on sentence-level simplification, transforming original, more complex sentences into simplified versions. However, adding content can often be useful when difficult concepts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Neha Srikanth , Junyi Jessy Li

Sentence splitting is a major simplification operator. Here we present a simple and efficient splitting algorithm based on an automatic semantic parser. After splitting, the text is amenable for further fine-tuned simplification operations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Elior Sulem , Omri Abend , Ari Rappoport

Accessing medical literature is difficult for laypeople as the content is written for specialists and contains medical jargon. Automated text simplification methods offer a potential means to address this issue. In this work, we propose a…

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People see text. Humans read by recognizing words as visual objects, including their shapes, layouts, and patterns, before connecting them to meaning, which enables us to handle typos, distorted fonts, and various scripts effectively.…

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Cross-Lingual Text Simplification (CLTS) aims to make content more accessible across languages by simultaneously addressing both linguistic complexity and translation. This study investigates the effectiveness of different prompting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ido Dahan , Omer Toledano , Roey J. Gafter , Sharon Pardo , Oren Tsur , Hila Zahavi , Elior Sulem

This work aims to resolve issues related to Web Service retrieval, also known as Service Selection, Discovery or essentially Matching, in two directions. Firstly, a novel matching algorithm for SAWSDL is introduced. The algorithm is hybrid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Thanos G. Stavropoulos , Stelios Andreadis , Nick Bassiliades , Dimitris Vrakas , Ioannis Vlahavas

This paper discusses the effectiveness of various text processing techniques, their combinations, and encodings to achieve a reduction of complexity and size in a given text corpus. The simplified text corpus is sent to BERT (or similar…

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Document parsing is essential for analyzing complex document structures and extracting fine-grained information, supporting numerous downstream applications. However, existing methods often require integrating multiple independent models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mingxu Chai , Ziyu Shen , Chong Zhang , Yue Zhang , Xiao Wang , Shihan Dou , Jihua Kang , Jiazheng Zhang , Qi Zhang

Table of contents (ToC) extraction centres on structuring documents in a hierarchical manner. In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ESGDoc, comprising 1,093 ESG annual reports from 563 companies spanning from 2001 to 2022. These reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xinyu Wang , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Efficient representation of text documents is an important building block in many NLP tasks. Research on long text categorization has shown that simple weighted averaging of word vectors for sentence representation often outperforms more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vivek Gupta , Ankit Saw , Pegah Nokhiz , Harshit Gupta , Partha Talukdar