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most citedEvaluating Unsupervised Text Classification: Zero-shot and Similarity-based Approaches

62 citations · 169 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2026

Think-Probe-Respond: Improving Large Language Models as Judges of Research Idea Novelty

Tim Schopf, Tobias Schreieder, Akiko Aizawa

Automated novelty judgment can accelerate scientific discovery by enabling efficient evaluation, refinement, and comparison of research ideas. While large language models are incre…

cs.CL2026

Encoded but Not Routed: Explaining the Table-Chart Gap in Scientific Claim Verification

Sunisth Kumar, Xanh Ho, Tim Schopf +3

Multimodal LLMs are increasingly used to assist scientific peer review, where a core requirement is verifying whether claims in a paper are supported by its evidence. Prior work ha…

cs.CL2026

Is this Idea Novel? An Automated Benchmark for Judgment of Research Ideas

Tim Schopf, Michael Färber

Judging the novelty of research ideas is crucial for advancing science, enabling the identification of unexplored directions, and ensuring contributions meaningfully extend existin…

cs.CL2025

Attribution, Citation, and Quotation: A Survey of Evidence-based Text Generation with Large Language Models

Tobias Schreieder, Tim Schopf, Michael Färber

The increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) has raised serious concerns about their reliability and trustworthiness. As a result, a growing body of research focuses on…

cs.CL2025

DocIE@XLLM25: In-Context Learning for Information Extraction using Fully Synthetic Demonstrations

Nicholas Popovič, Ashish Kangen, Tim Schopf +1

Large, high-quality annotated corpora remain scarce in document-level entity and relation extraction in zero-shot or few-shot settings. In this paper, we present a fully automatic,…

cs.CL2024

Efficient Few-shot Learning for Multi-label Classification of Scientific Documents with Many Classes

Tim Schopf, Alexander Blatzheim, Nektarios Machner +1

Scientific document classification is a critical task and often involves many classes. However, collecting human-labeled data for many classes is expensive and usually leads to lab…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

An Improved Method for Class-specific Keyword Extraction: A Case Study in the German Business Registry

Stephen Meisenbacher, Tim Schopf, Weixin Yan +2

The task of is often an important initial step in unsupervised information extraction, forming the basis for tasks such as topic modeling or document…

cs.CL2024

NLP-KG: A System for Exploratory Search of Scientific Literature in Natural Language Processing

Tim Schopf, Florian Matthes

Scientific literature searches are often exploratory, whereby users are not yet familiar with a particular field or concept but are interested in learning more about it. However, e…

cs.CL2024

Enterprise Use Cases Combining Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing

Phillip Schneider, Tim Schopf, Juraj Vladika +1

Knowledge management is a critical challenge for enterprises in today's digital world, as the volume and complexity of data being generated and collected continue to grow incessant…

cs.DL2023

A Knowledge Graph Approach for Exploratory Search in Research Institutions

Tim Schopf, Nektarios Machner, Florian Matthes

Over the past decades, research institutions have grown increasingly and consequently also their research output. This poses a significant challenge for researchers seeking to unde…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

Exploring the Landscape of Natural Language Processing Research

Tim Schopf, Karim Arabi, Florian Matthes

As an efficient approach to understand, generate, and process natural language texts, research in natural language processing (NLP) has exhibited a rapid spread and wide adoption i…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

AspectCSE: Sentence Embeddings for Aspect-based Semantic Textual Similarity Using Contrastive Learning and Structured Knowledge

Tim Schopf, Emanuel Gerber, Malte Ostendorff +1

Generic sentence embeddings provide a coarse-grained approximation of semantic textual similarity but ignore specific aspects that make texts similar. Conversely, aspect-based sent…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Efficient Domain Adaptation of Sentence Embeddings Using Adapters

Tim Schopf, Dennis N. Schneider, Florian Matthes

Sentence embeddings enable us to capture the semantic similarity of short texts. Most sentence embedding models are trained for general semantic textual similarity tasks. Therefore…

cs.CL2022★ 62 cited

Evaluating Unsupervised Text Classification: Zero-shot and Similarity-based Approaches

Tim Schopf, Daniel Braun, Florian Matthes

Text classification of unseen classes is a challenging Natural Language Processing task and is mainly attempted using two different types of approaches. Similarity-based approaches…

cs.CL2022★ 25 cited

Lbl2Vec: An Embedding-Based Approach for Unsupervised Document Retrieval on Predefined Topics

Tim Schopf, Daniel Braun, Florian Matthes

In this paper, we consider the task of retrieving documents with predefined topics from an unlabeled document dataset using an unsupervised approach. The proposed unsupervised appr…

cs.CL2022★ 39 cited

PatternRank: Leveraging Pretrained Language Models and Part of Speech for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction

Tim Schopf, Simon Klimek, Florian Matthes

Keyphrase extraction is the process of automatically selecting a small set of most relevant phrases from a given text. Supervised keyphrase extraction approaches need large amounts…

cs.CL2022★ 20 cited

A Decade of Knowledge Graphs in Natural Language Processing: A Survey

Phillip Schneider, Tim Schopf, Juraj Vladika +3

In pace with developments in the research field of artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs (KGs) have attracted a surge of interest from both academia and industry. As a represen…