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Data selection can reduce the amount of training data needed to finetune LLMs; however, the efficacy of data selection scales directly with its compute. Motivated by the practical challenge of compute-constrained finetuning, we consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junjie Oscar Yin , Alexander M. Rush

Most recently, researchers have started building large language models (LLMs) powered data systems that allow users to analyze unstructured text documents like working with a database because LLMs are very effective in extracting attributes…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhaoze Sun , Qiyan Deng , Chengliang Chai , Kaisen Jin , Xinyu Guo , Han Han , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Cao

Multimodal agents offer a promising path to automating complex document-intensive workflows. Yet, a critical question remains: do these agents demonstrate genuine strategic reasoning, or merely stochastic trial-and-error search? To address…

With the rapid growth of textual content on the Internet, efficient large-scale semantic text retrieval has garnered increasing attention from both academia and industry. Text hashing, which projects original texts into compact binary hash…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Liyang He , Zhenya Huang , Cheng Yang , Rui Li , Zheng Zhang , Kai Zhang , Zhi Li , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Training data influence estimation methods quantify the contribution of training documents to a model's output, making them a promising source of information for example-based explanations. As humans cannot interpret thousands of documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Loris Schoenegger , Benjamin Roth

Large amount of unstructured designed information is difficult to deal with. Obtaining specific information is a hard mission and takes a lot of time. Information Retrieval System (IR) is a way to solve this kind of problem. IR is a good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Maher Abdullah , Mohammed GH. I. Al Zamil

While humans can extract information from unstructured text with high precision and recall, this is often too time-consuming to be practical. Automated approaches, on the other hand, produce nearly-immediate results, but may not be reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Bradley Butcher , Miri Zilka , Darren Cook , Jiri Hron , Adrian Weller

Effective methodologies for evaluating recommender systems are critical, so that such systems can be compared in a sound manner. A commonly overlooked aspect of recommender system evaluation is the selection of the data splitting strategy.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Zaiqiao Meng , Richard McCreadie , Craig Macdonald , Iadh Ounis

Tables are common and important in scientific documents, yet most text-based document search systems do not capture structures and semantics specific to tables. How to bridge different types of mismatch between keywords queries and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Kyle Yingkai Gao , Jamie Callan

A key bottleneck in building automatic extraction models for visually rich documents like invoices is the cost of acquiring the several thousand high-quality labeled documents that are needed to train a model with acceptable accuracy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yichao Zhou , James B. Wendt , Navneet Potti , Jing Xie , Sandeep Tata

Protecting privileged communications and data from disclosure is paramount for legal teams. Unrestricted legal advice, such as attorney-client communications or litigation strategy. are vital to the legal process and are exempt from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Peter Gronvall , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Jianping Zhang , Robert Keeling , Robert Neary , Haozhen Zhao

With the rapid proliferation of textual data, predicting long texts has emerged as a significant challenge in the domain of natural language processing. Traditional text prediction methods encounter substantial difficulties when grappling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jiahui Zhao , Ziyi Meng , Stepan Gordeev , Zijie Pan , Dongjin Song , Sandro Steinbach , Caiwen Ding

Social scientists often classify text documents to use the resulting labels as an outcome or a predictor in empirical research. Automated text classification has become a standard tool, since it requires less human coding. However, scholars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mitchell Bosley , Saki Kuzushima , Ted Enamorado , Yuki Shiraito

The paper proposes various strategies for sampling text data when performing automatic sentence classification for the purpose of detecting missing bibliographic links. We construct samples based on sentences as semantic units of the text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 F. V. Krasnova , I. S. Smaznevicha , E. N. Baskakova

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text analysis tasks, yet their evaluation on complex, real-world applications remains challenging. We define a set of tasks, Multi-Insight Multi-Document Extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 John Francis , Saba Esnaashari , Anton Poletaev , Sukankana Chakraborty , Youmna Hashem , Jonathan Bright

In certain real-world optimization scenarios, practitioners are not interested in solving multiple problems but rather in finding the best solution to a single, specific problem. When the computational budget is large relative to the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Judith Echevarrieta , Etor Arza , Aritz Pérez , Josu Ceberio

Clinical document metadata, such as document type, structure, author role, medical specialty, and encounter setting, is essential for accurate interpretation of information captured in clinical documents. However, vast documentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Kurt Miller , Qiuhao Lu , William Hersh , Kirk Roberts , Steven Bedrick , Andrew Wen , Hongfang Liu

In this paper we discuss several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. We analyze the nature of web content and metadata in relation to requirements for text features. We find that HTML metatags are a good source of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John M. Pierre

Since the amount of information on the internet is growing rapidly, it is not easy for a user to find relevant information for his/her query. To tackle this issue, much attention has been paid to Automatic Document Summarization. The key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zhang Zuping , Yang Kang

Feature selection, as a data preprocessing strategy, has been proven to be effective and efficient in preparing data (especially high-dimensional data) for various data mining and machine learning problems. The objectives of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jundong Li , Kewei Cheng , Suhang Wang , Fred Morstatter , Robert P. Trevino , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu