arXiv Machine Learning

A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Class Financial News Classification in Brazilian Portuguese

The paper introduces a large corpus of about 160,000 Brazilian Portuguese financial news articles to support Natural Language Processing research in this domain. It presents initial benchmarks for a weakly supervised multi‑class classification task using semantic similarity, evaluating cosine similarity, K‑Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and FAISS‑based nearest‑neighbor search with multilingual embeddings. Results show that KNN performs best on manually labeled data (47.3% accuracy, 31.9% F1), while LLM‑annotated data yields similar accuracy but much lower F1 scores due to label imbalance and noise.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Multi-Functional Embedding Models for Funder Name Disambiguation in Scientific Publication Records

The paper introduces a multilingual, multi-functional framework for disambiguating funder names in scientific publications, using a training dataset that merges the Research Organization Registry with Web of Science and Crossref Open Funder Registry data. By applying multi-task learning with contrastive and multiple negatives ranking losses, the authors fine‑tune open‑weight embedding models from the Sentence Transformer, Gemma, and Qwen3 families, achieving over 90% accuracy in matching Web of Science funder names to ROR identifiers and surpassing general‑purpose LLMs by more than 0.1. For funders not present in ROR, a similarity network is constructed to identify clusters, and the study discusses challenges related to smaller and non‑English‑speaking funders.

By Kanyao Han, Zhiwen You, Jinseok Kim, Jana Diesner
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

ChemCLIR-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in Multilingual Chemical Patents

arXiv:2609.23231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) is increasingly important in multi-national industries, where critical technical evidence may exist in a dif...

By Mahdi Astaraki, Mohammad Khodadad, Reza Namazi, Mohammad Arshi Saloot, Amir Reza Behzad Moghadam, Hamidreza Mahyar, Soheila Samiee
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Improving Cross-Lingual Transfer for Sequential Sentence Classification in Research Papers via Structural Similarity

The paper investigates cross‑lingual transfer for sequential sentence classification (SSC) in research papers, focusing on 13 non‑English languages. Experiments show that linguistic proximity does not reliably predict transfer success, whereas structural similarity in rhetorical organization—particularly label distribution similarity—correlates positively with performance. The authors introduce three generative‑model methods that exploit structural cues, achieving parity with strong encoder baselines on‑domain and outperforming them when transferring to unseen languages.

By Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Marie Katsurai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Automatic identification of diagnosis from hospital discharge letters via weakly supervised Natural Language Processing

arXiv:2410. 15051v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifying patient diagnoses from hospital discharge letters is essential for large-scale cohort selection and epidemiological research, but traditional supervised approaches require extensive manual annotation, which is often impractical for large textual datasets.

By Vittorio Torri, Elisa Barbieri, Anna Cantarutti, Carlo Giaquinto, Francesca Ieva