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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…

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Tabular data is frequently captured in image form across a wide range of real-world scenarios such as financial reports, handwritten records, and document scans. These visual representations pose unique challenges for machine understanding,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhuoyan Xu , Haoyang Fang , Boran Han , Bonan Min , Bernie Wang , Cuixiong Hu , Shuai Zhang

Designers need to consider not only perceptual effectiveness but also visual styles when creating an infographic. This process can be difficult and time consuming for professional designers, not to mention non-expert users, leading to the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chen Zhu-Tian , Yun Wang , Qianwen Wang , Yong Wang , Huamin Qu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on general-purpose tasks, yet adapting them to specific domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality domain data. Existing data synthesis tools often struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ziyang Miao , Qiyu Sun , Jingyuan Wang , Yuchen Gong , Yaowei Zheng , Shiqi Li , Richong Zhang

Document parsing (DP) transforms unstructured or semi-structured documents into structured, machine-readable representations, enabling downstream applications such as knowledge base construction and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).…

Visual document understanding (VDU) is a challenging task that involves understanding documents across various modalities (text and image) and layouts (forms, tables, etc.). This study aims to enhance generalizability of small VDU models by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sungnyun Kim , Haofu Liao , Srikar Appalaraju , Peng Tang , Zhuowen Tu , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , R. Manmatha , Vijay Mahadevan , Stefano Soatto

The vast majority of materials science knowledge exists in unstructured natural language, yet structured data is crucial for innovative and systematic materials design. Traditionally, the field has relied on manual curation and partial…

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Text-to-SQL generation, allowing users to query structured data using natural language with growing ease. Yet, real-world deployment remains challenging, especially in complex or unseen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Smit Jivani , Sarvam Maheshwari , Sunita Sarawagi

Retrieving accurate details from documents is a crucial task, especially when handling a combination of scanned images and native digital formats. This document presents a combined framework for text extraction that merges Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Rasha Sinha , Rekha B S

Extracting information from documents usually relies on natural language processing methods working on one-dimensional sequences of text. In some cases, for example, for the extraction of key information from semi-structured documents, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Oliver Bensch , Mirela Popa , Constantin Spille

Tracking progress in machine learning has become increasingly difficult with the recent explosion in the number of papers. In this paper, we present AxCell, an automatic machine learning pipeline for extracting results from papers. AxCell…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Marcin Kardas , Piotr Czapla , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Ruder , Sebastian Riedel , Ross Taylor , Robert Stojnic

Constructing accurate knowledge graphs from long texts and low-resource languages is challenging, as large language models (LLMs) experience degraded performance with longer input chunks. This problem is amplified in low-resource settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Divyansh Singh , Manuel Nunez Martinez , Bonnie J. Dorr , Sonja Schmer Galunder

Document-level Information Extraction (DocIE) aims to produce an output template with the entities, relations, and events of interest occurring in the given document. Standard practices include prompting decoder-only LLMs using greedy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mikel Zubillaga , Oscar Sainz , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Eneko Agirre

The integration of tabular data from diverse sources is often hindered by inconsistencies in formatting and representation, posing significant challenges for data analysts and personal digital assistants. Existing methods for automating…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Davood Rafiei

Transformer-based Language Models are widely used in Natural Language Processing related tasks. Thanks to their pre-training, they have been successfully adapted to Information Extraction in business documents. However, most pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Thibault Douzon , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia , Jérémy Espinas

Solving tabular math word problems (TMWPs) has become a critical role in evaluating the mathematical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), where large-scale TMWP samples are commonly required for LLM fine-tuning. Since the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xiaoqiang Kang , Zimu Wang , Xiaobo Jin , Wei Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Qiufeng Wang

The explosion of scientific literature has made the efficient and accurate extraction of structured data a critical component for advancing scientific knowledge and supporting evidence-based decision-making. However, existing tools often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xingbo Wang , Samantha L. Huey , Rui Sheng , Saurabh Mehta , Fei Wang

Table extraction (TE) is a key challenge in visual document understanding. Traditional approaches detect tables first, then recognize their structure. Recently, interest has surged in developing methods, such as vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Brandon Smock , Valerie Faucon-Morin , Max Sokolov , Libin Liang , Tayyibah Khanam , Amrit Ramesh , Maury Courtland

Document understanding and information extraction include different tasks to understand a document and extract valuable information automatically. Recently, there has been a rising demand for developing document understanding among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Soyeon Caren Han , Yihao Ding , Siwen Luo , Josiah Poon , HeeGuen Yoon , Zhe Huang , Paul Duuring , Eun Jung Holden

We introduce VAREX (VARied-schema EXtraction), a benchmark for evaluating multimodal foundation models on structured data extraction from government forms. VAREX employs a Reverse Annotation pipeline that programmatically fills PDF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Udi Barzelay , Ophir Azulai , Inbar Shapira , Idan Friedman , Foad Abo Dahood , Madison Lee , Abraham Daniels