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Curricular analytics (CA) -- systematic analysis of curricula data to inform program and course refinement -- becomes an increasingly valuable tool to help institutions align academic offerings with evolving societal and economic demands.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhen Xu , Xinjin Li , Yingqi Huan , Veronica Minaya , Renzhe Yu

Purpose: Higher education institutions face increasing pressure to audit course designs for generative AI (GenAI) integration. This paper presents an end-to-end method for using large language models (LLMs) to scan course information sheets…

Accurate and comprehensive material databases extracted from research papers are crucial for materials science and engineering, but their development requires significant human effort. With large language models (LLMs) transforming the way…

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming useful in many domains due to their impressive abilities that arise from large training datasets and large model sizes. However, research on LLM-based approaches to document inconsistency detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nelvin Tan , Yaowen Zhang , James Asikin Cheung , Fusheng Liu , Yu-Ching Shih , Dong Yang

We participated in the KDD CUP 2024 paper source tracing competition and achieved the 3rd place. This competition tasked participants with identifying the reference sources (i.e., ref-sources, as referred to by the organizers of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kunlong Chen , Junjun Wang , Zhaoqun Chen , Kunjin Chen , Yitian Chen

PDFs remain the dominant format for scholarly communication, despite significant accessibility challenges for blind and low-vision users. While various tools attempt to evaluate PDF accessibility, there is no standardized methodology to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Anukriti Kumar , Tanushree Padath , Lucy Lu Wang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong performance in English, but their effectiveness in Japanese remains limited due to the lack of high-quality training data. Current Japanese LMMs often rely on translated English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jeonghun Baek , Akiko Aizawa , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Many documents, that we call templatized documents, are programmatically generated by populating fields in a visual template. Effective data extraction from these documents is crucial to supporting downstream analytical tasks. Current data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yiming Lin , Mawil Hasan , Rohan Kosalge , Alvin Cheung , Aditya G. Parameswaran

Tables are recognized for their high information density and widespread usage, serving as essential sources of information. Seeking information from tables (TIS) is a crucial capability for Large Language Models (LLMs), serving as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chaoxu Pang , Yixuan Cao , Chunhao Yang , Ping Luo

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

The classification of legal documents from an unstructured data corpus has several crucial applications in downstream tasks. Documents relevant to court filings are key in use cases such as drafting motions, memos, and outlines, as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ishaan Gakhar , Harsh Nandwani

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted as tools for learning; however, most tools remain text-only, limiting their usefulness for domains where visualizations are essential, such as mathematics. Recent work shows that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Vishal Kumar , Shubhra Mishra , Rebecca Hao , Rizwaan Malik , David Broman , Dorottya Demszky

The volume of academic literature, such as academic conference papers and journals, has increased rapidly worldwide, and research on metadata extraction is ongoing. However, high-performing metadata extraction is still challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Jongyun Choi , Hyesoo Kong , Hwamook Yoon , Heung-Seon Oh , Yuchul Jung

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in the task of text ranking for information retrieval. While Pointwise ranking approaches offer computational efficiency by scoring documents independently, they often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jieran Li , Xiuyuan Hu , Yang Zhao , Shengyao Zhuang , Hao Zhang

We introduce TableLLM, a robust large language model (LLM) with 8 billion parameters, purpose-built for proficiently handling tabular data manipulation tasks, whether they are embedded within documents or spreadsheets, catering to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiaokang Zhang , Sijia Luo , Bohan Zhang , Zeyao Ma , Jing Zhang , Yang Li , Guanlin Li , Zijun Yao , Kangli Xu , Jinchang Zhou , Daniel Zhang-Li , Jifan Yu , Shu Zhao , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

The data extraction stages of reviews are resource-intensive, and researchers may seek to expediate data extraction using online (large language models) LLMs and review protocols. Claude 3.5 Sonnet was used to trial two approaches that used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 James Stewart-Evans , Emma Wilson , Tessa Langley , Andrew Prayle , Angela Hands , Karen Exley , Jo Leonardi-Bee

This study presents OpenExtract, an open-source pipeline for automated data extraction in large-scale systematic literature reviews. The pipeline queries large language models (LLMs) to predict data entries based on relevant sections of…

Automatic extraction of procedural graphs from documents creates a low-cost way for users to easily understand a complex procedure by skimming visual graphs. Despite the progress in recent studies, it remains unanswered: whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Weihong Du , Wenrui Liao , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

Information Extraction (IE) seeks to derive structured information from unstructured texts, often facing challenges in low-resource scenarios due to data scarcity and unseen classes. This paper presents a review of neural approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shumin Deng , Yubo Ma , Ningyu Zhang , Yixin Cao , Bryan Hooi