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Large Language Models (LLMs) gain substantial reasoning and decision-making capabilities from thought structures. However, existing methods such as Tree of Thought and Retrieval Augmented Thoughts often fall short in complex tasks due to…

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Online information has increased tremendously in today's age of Internet. As a result, the need has arose to extract relevant content from the plethora of available information. Researchers are widely using automatic text summarization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Mohd Khizir Siddiqui , Amreen Ahmad , Om Pal , Tanvir Ahmad

Text segmentation (TS) aims at dividing long text into coherent segments which reflect the subtopic structure of the text. It is beneficial to many natural language processing tasks, such as Information Retrieval (IR) and document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Mostafa Bayomi , Killian Levacher , M. Rami Ghorab , Séamus Lawless

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

The exponential growth of data has outpaced human ability to process information, necessitating innovative approaches for effective human-data interaction. To transform raw data into meaningful insights, storytelling, and visualization have…

Entity alignment has always had significant uses within a multitude of diverse scientific fields. In particular, the concept of matching entities across networks has grown in significance in the world of social science as communicative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 James Flamino , Christopher Abriola , Ben Zimmerman , Zhongheng Li , Joel Douglas

Automatically generating human-readable text describing the functionality of a program is the intent of source code summarization. Although neural language models achieve significant performance in this field, they are limited by their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tong Ye , Lingfei Wu , Tengfei Ma , Xuhong Zhang , Yangkai Du , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

Extractive text summarization has been an extensive research problem in the field of natural language understanding. While the conventional approaches rely mostly on manually compiled features to generate the summary, few attempts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

We propose an information-theoretic framework to measure narratives, providing a formalism to understand pivotal moments, cliffhangers, and plot twists. This approach offers creatives and AI researchers tools to analyse and benchmark human-…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lion Schulz , Miguel Patrício , Daan Odijk

We present a compact data structure to represent both the duration and length of homogeneous segments of trajectories from moving objects in a way that, as a data warehouse, it allows us to efficiently answer cumulative queries. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Antonio Fariña , Gonzalo Navarro , Tirso V. Rodeiro

To understand a narrative, it is essential to comprehend the temporal event flows, especially those associated with main characters; however, this can be challenging with lengthy and unstructured narrative texts. To address this, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Guangxuan Xu , Paulina Toro Isaza , Moshi Li , Akintoye Oloko , Bingsheng Yao , Cassia Sanctos , Aminat Adebiyi , Yufang Hou , Nanyun Peng , Dakuo Wang

Traditionally in the domain of legal research, the retrieval of pertinent citations from intricate case descriptions has demanded manual effort and keyword-based search applications that mandate expertise in understanding legal jargon.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Akshat Mohan Dasula , Hrushitha Tigulla , Preethika Bhukya

The recent years have seen remarkable success in the use of deep neural networks on text summarization. However, there is no clear understanding of \textit{why} they perform so well, or \textit{how} they might be improved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Narrative comprehension on long stories and novels has been a challenging domain attributed to their intricate plotlines and entangled, often evolving relations among characters and entities. Given the LLM's diminished reasoning over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Juyuan Wang , Rongchen Zhao , Wei Wei , Yufeng Wang , Mo Yu , Jie Zhou , Jin Xu , Liyan Xu

This paper proposes OCR++, an open-source framework designed for a variety of information extraction tasks from scholarly articles including metadata (title, author names, affiliation and e-mail), structure (section headings and body text,…

In enterprise datasets, documents are rarely pure. They are not just text, nor just numbers; they are a complex amalgam of narrative and structure. Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have attempted to address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Alex Dantart , Marco Kóvacs-Navarro

Navigating the vast scientific literature often starts with browsing a paper's abstract. However, when a reader seeks additional information, not present in the abstract, they face a costly cognitive chasm during their dive into the full…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Raymond Fok , Joseph Chee Chang , Tal August , Amy X. Zhang , Daniel S. Weld

Document coherence describes how much sense text makes in terms of its logical organisation and discourse flow. Even though coherence is a relatively difficult notion to quantify precisely, it can be approximated automatically. This type of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Christina Lioma , Fabien Tarissan , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Casper Petersen , Birger Larsen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are adept at generating responses based on information within their context. While this ability is useful for interacting with structured data like code files, another popular method, Retrieval-Augmented…

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