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Unstructured documents like PDFs contain valuable structured information, but downstream systems require this data in reliable, standardized formats. LLMs are increasingly deployed to automate this extraction, making accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nick Ferguson , Josh Pennington , Narek Beghian , Aravind Mohan , Douwe Kiela , Sheshansh Agrawal , Thien Hang Nguyen

Information Extraction (IE) refers to automatically extracting structured relation tuples from unstructured texts. Common IE solutions, including Relation Extraction (RE) and open IE systems, can hardly handle cross-sentence tuples, and are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Lin Qiu , Hao Zhou , Yanru Qu , Weinan Zhang , Suoheng Li , Shu Rong , Dongyu Ru , Lihua Qian , Kewei Tu , Yong Yu

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge (e.g., entities, relations, events) from natural language texts, which brings challenges to existing methods due to task-specific schemas and complex text expressions. Code,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yucan Guo , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Yantao Liu , Yutao Zeng , Wenxuan Liu , Xiang Li , Pan Yang , Long Bai , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Extracting structured information from text, such as key-value pairs that could augment tabular data, is quite useful in many enterprise use cases. Although large language models (LLMs) have enabled numerous automated pipelines for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Satyananda Kashyap , Sola Shirai , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Horst Samulowitz

Visual information extraction (VIE) plays an important role in Document Intelligence. Generally, it is divided into two tasks: semantic entity recognition (SER) and relation extraction (RE). Recently, pre-trained models for documents have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuwei Luo , Changxu Cheng , Qi Zheng , Cong Yao

Document-level relation extraction aims at inferring structured human knowledge from textual documents. State-of-the-art methods for this task use pre-trained language models (LMs) via fine-tuning, yet fine-tuning is computationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yilmazcan Ozyurt , Stefan Feuerriegel , Ce Zhang

Information extraction (IE) for visually-rich documents (VRDs) has achieved SOTA performance recently thanks to the adaptation of Transformer-based language models, which shows the great potential of pre-training methods. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Tuan-Anh D. Nguyen , Hieu M. Vu , Nguyen Hong Son , Minh-Tien Nguyen

We consider the problem of Open-world Information Extraction (Open-world IE), which extracts comprehensive entity profiles from unstructured texts. Different from the conventional closed-world setting of Information Extraction (IE),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Keming Lu , Xiaoman Pan , Kaiqiang Song , Hongming Zhang , Dong Yu , Jianshu Chen

Information extraction (IE) from Visually Rich Documents (VRDs) containing layout features along with text is a critical and well-studied task. Specialized non-LLM NLP-based solutions typically involve training models using both textual and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aniket Bhattacharyya , Anurag Tripathi , Ujjal Das , Archan Karmakar , Amit Pathak , Maneesh Gupta

Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Derong Xu , Wei Chen , Wenjun Peng , Chao Zhang , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Wang , Enhong Chen

Advances in the Visually-rich Document Understanding (VrDU) field and particularly the Key-Information Extraction (KIE) task are marked with the emergence of efficient Transformer-based approaches such as the LayoutLM models. Despite the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Seif Laatiri , Pirashanth Ratnamogan , Joel Tang , Laurent Lam , William Vanhuffel , Fabien Caspani

In this paper, we aim to enhance the robustness of Universal Information Extraction (UIE) by introducing a new benchmark dataset, a comprehensive evaluation, and a feasible solution. Existing robust benchmark datasets have two key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jizhao Zhu , Akang Shi , Zixuan Li , Long Bai , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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

State-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) still have limited performance in structural knowledge extraction, such as relations between objects. In this work, we present ViStruct, a training framework to learn VLMs for effective visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yangyi Chen , Xingyao Wang , Manling Li , Derek Hoiem , Heng Ji

We present LLMStructBench, a novel benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on extracting structured data and generating valid JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) outputs from natural-language text. Our open dataset comprises…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sönke Tenckhoff , Mario Koddenbrock , Erik Rodner

Document Understanding is an evolving field in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In particular, visual and spatial features are essential in addition to the raw text itself and hence, several multimodal models were developed in the field…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Wiam Adnan , Joel Tang , Yassine Bel Khayat Zouggari , Seif Edinne Laatiri , Laurent Lam , Fabien Caspani

The challenge of information extraction (IE) lies in the diversity of label schemas and the heterogeneity of structures. Traditional methods require task-specific model design and rely heavily on expensive supervision, making them difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jie Lou , Yaojie Lu , Dai Dai , Wei Jia , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hua Wu

Visual information extraction (VIE), which aims to simultaneously perform OCR and information extraction in a unified framework, has drawn increasing attention due to its essential role in various applications like understanding receipts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianfeng Kuang , Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Mingkun Yang , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren , Xiang Bai

Text structuralization is one of the important fields of natural language processing (NLP) consists of information extraction (IE) and structure formalization. However, current studies of text structuralization suffer from a shortage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xuanfan Ni , Piji Li , Huayang Li

Information extraction (IE) from unstructured documents remains a critical challenge in data processing pipelines. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods and conventional parsing engines demonstrate limited effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Aditya Parikh