William A. Ingram

Beyond Topic Matching: Goal-Conditioned Evaluation of Research Contributions in ETD Collections

The loss of fidelity shows that intermediate teacher evaluations provide useful supervision for approximating the evaluative function, and whether reducing the influence of intermediate teacher evaluations improves or impairs approximation is tested by comparing plain binary cross-entropy with weighting, masking, and h...

End-to-End Contextualized URL Extraction from Scholarly Papers

Beyond Topic Matching: Goal-Conditioned Evaluation of Research Contributions in ETD Collections

Evaluating whether scholarly research contributes to a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) requires an interpretive framework that combines the goal definition, its targets, contribution criteria, and the document itself. Instruction-tuned large language models can instantiate this framework in context, producing a cons...

URL Extraction from Scholarly Documents: A Cross-Format Comparative Analysis

This study presents a systematic study evaluating URL extraction across six input formats and indicates that TEXTWAL achieves the best performance among single-format inputs, while TEXTWAL+LaTeX achieves the best overall URL extraction performance.