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Prompting, which casts downstream applications as language modeling tasks, has shown to be sample efficient compared to standard fine-tuning with pre-trained models. However, one pitfall of prompting is the need of manually-designed…

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Dealing with long and highly complex technical text is a challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), which still have to unfold their potential in supporting expensive and timeintensive processes like patent drafting. Within patents, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Valentin Knappich , Simon Razniewski , Anna Hätty , Annemarie Friedrich

Patent claims define the scope of protection for an invention. If there are ambiguities in a claim, it is rejected by the patent office. In the US, this is referred to as indefiniteness (35 U.S.C {\S} 112(b)) and is among the most frequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Valentin Knappich , Annemarie Friedrich , Anna Hätty , Simon Razniewski

Large language models (LLMs) excel in open domains but struggle in specialized settings with limited data and evolving knowledge. Existing domain adaptation practices rely heavily on manual trial-and-error processes, incur significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sidharth Sinha , Anson Bastos , Xuchao Zhang , Akshay Nambi , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan

The process of landscaping automotive innovation through patent analysis is crucial for Research and Development teams. It aids in comprehending innovation trends, technological advancements, and the latest technologies from competitors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Raju Gorain , Omkar Salunke

Patent examiners need to solve a complex information retrieval task when they assess the novelty and inventive step of claims made in a patent application. Given a claim, they search for prior art, which comprises all relevant publicly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Julian Risch , Nicolas Alder , Christoph Hewel , Ralf Krestel

The AutoSpeech challenge calls for automated machine learning (AutoML) solutions to automate the process of applying machine learning to speech processing tasks. These tasks, which cover a large variety of domains, will be shown to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jingsong Wang , Tom Ko , Zhen Xu , Xiawei Guo , Souxiang Liu , Wei-Wei Tu , Lei Xie

We survey Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches to summarizing, simplifying, and generating patents' text. While solving these tasks has important practical applications - given patents' centrality in the R&D process - patents'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Silvia Casola , Alberto Lavelli

Accurate representation of procedures in restricted scenarios, such as non-standardized scientific experiments, requires precise depiction of constraints. Unfortunately, Domain-specific Language (DSL), as an effective tool to express…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yu-Zhe Shi , Haofei Hou , Zhangqian Bi , Fanxu Meng , Xiang Wei , Lecheng Ruan , Qining Wang

Specification synthesis, the task of automatically inferring formal specifications from program implementations and natural language, is important for refactoring, transpilation, optimization, and verification, yet remains an open challenge…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tarun Suresh , David Korczynski , Julien Vanegue

The advent of large pre-trained language models has made it possible to make high-quality predictions on how to add or change a sentence in a document. However, the high branching factor inherent to text generation impedes the ability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zeqiu Wu , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Yizhe Zhang , Bill Dolan

In this work, we introduce a comprehensive error typology specifically designed for evaluating two distinct tasks in machine-generated patent texts: claims-to-abstract generation, and the generation of the next claim given previous ones. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 You Zuo , Kim Gerdes , Eric Villemonte de La Clergerie , Benoît Sagot

Automated machine learning (AutoML) accelerates AI development by automating tasks in the development pipeline, such as optimal model search and hyperparameter tuning. Existing AutoML systems often require technical expertise to set up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Patara Trirat , Wonyong Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

Automatic refinement of patent claims in patent applications is crucial from the perspective of intellectual property strategy. In this paper, we propose ClaimBrush, a novel framework for automated patent claim refinement that includes a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Seiya Kawano , Hirofumi Nonaka , Koichiro Yoshino

Large Language Models (LLMs) can be fine-tuned on domain-specific data to enhance their performance in specialized fields. However, such data often contains numerous low-quality samples, necessitating effective data processing (DP). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Wei Huang , Anda Cheng , Yinggui Wang , Lei Wang , Tao Wei

Recent advancements in the field of large language models have made it possible to use language models for advanced reasoning. In this paper we leverage this ability for designing complex project plans based only on knowing the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Martin Schroder

High-stakes texts such as patent claims, medical records, and technical reports are structurally complex and demand a high degree of reliability and precision. While large language models (LLMs) have recently been applied to automate their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yongmin Yoo , Qiongkai Xu , Longbing Cao

Lexically constrained text generation is one of the constrained text generation tasks, which aims to generate text that covers all the given constraint lexicons. While the existing approaches tackle this problem using a lexically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hayate Iso

We introduce AutoSpec, a neural network framework for discovering iterative spectral algorithms for large-scale numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization. Our self-supervised models adapt to input operators using coarse spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihang Liu , Oleg Balabanov , Yaoqing Yang , Michael W. Mahoney

Automatic patent summarization approaches that help in the patent analysis and comprehension procedure are in high demand due to the colossal growth of innovations. The development of natural language processing (NLP), text mining, and deep…

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