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The segmentation of complex images into semantic regions has seen a growing interest these last years with the advent of Deep Learning. Until recently, most existing methods for Historical Document Analysis focused on the visual appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mélodie Boillet , Martin Maarand , Thierry Paquet , Christopher Kermorvant

Since real-world ubiquitous documents (e.g., invoices, tickets, resumes and leaflets) contain rich information, automatic document image understanding has become a hot topic. Most existing works decouple the problem into two separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Peng Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Jing Lu , Liang Qiao , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hakan Inan , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad

Segmenting text into semantically coherent segments is an important task with applications in information retrieval and text summarization. Developing accurate topical segmentation requires the availability of training data with ground…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Saurav Manchanda , George Karypis

The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Remy Mullot , Mohamed Adel Alimi

Segmentation of a text-document into lines, words and characters, which is considered to be the crucial pre-processing stage in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is traditionally carried out on uncompressed documents, although most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Mohammed Javed , P. Nagabhushan , B. B. Chaudhuri

Dividing oral histories into topically coherent segments can make them more accessible online. People regularly make judgments about where coherent segments can be extracted from oral histories. But making these judgments can be taxing, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ryan Shaw

Language identification (LI) is the problem of determining the natural language that a document or part thereof is written in. Automatic LI has been extensively researched for over fifty years. Today, LI is a key part of many text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Tommi Jauhiainen , Marco Lui , Marcos Zampieri , Timothy Baldwin , Krister Lindén

In this paper, we approach the problem of segmentation-free query-by-string word spotting for handwritten documents. In other words, we use methods inspired from computer vision and machine learning to search for words in large collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Tomas Wilkinson , Jonas Lindström , Anders Brun

Text segmentation (TS) aims at dividing long text into coherent segments which reflect the subtopic structure of the text. It is beneficial to many natural language processing tasks, such as Information Retrieval (IR) and document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Mostafa Bayomi , Killian Levacher , M. Rami Ghorab , Séamus Lawless

The growing complexity of legal cases has lead to an increasing interest in legal information retrieval systems that can effectively satisfy user-specific information needs. However, such downstream systems typically require documents to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dennis Aumiller , Satya Almasian , Sebastian Lackner , Michael Gertz

Text line detection is crucial for any application associated with Automatic Text Recognition or Keyword Spotting. Modern algorithms perform good on well-established datasets since they either comprise clean data or simple/homogeneous page…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Tobias Grüning , Roger Labahn , Markus Diem , Florian Kleber , Stefan Fiel

Understanding and extracting of information from large documents, such as business opportunities, academic articles, medical documents and technical reports, poses challenges not present in short documents. Such large documents may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

A foundational task for the digital analysis of documents is text line segmentation. However, automating this process with deep learning models is challenging because it requires large, annotated datasets that are often unavailable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rafael Sterzinger , Tingyu Lin , Robert Sablatnig

-This paper presents a semi automatic method used to segment color documents into different uniform color plans. The practical application is dedicated to administrative documents segmentation. In these documents, like in many other cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Stéphane Bres , Véronique Eglin , Vincent Poulain

Current language understanding approaches focus on small documents, such as newswire articles, blog posts, product reviews and discussion forum entries. Understanding and extracting information from large documents like legal briefs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

In recent years, (retro-)digitizing paper-based files became a major undertaking for private and public archives as well as an important task in electronic mailroom applications. As a first step, the workflow involves scanning and Optical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Gregor Wiedemann , Gerhard Heyer

From the literature, it is demonstrated that performing text-line segmentation directly in the run-length compressed handwritten document images significantly reduces the computational time and memory space. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Amarnath R , P. Nagabhushan , Mohammed Javed

The transcription of historical documents written in Latin in XV and XVI centuries has special challenges as it must maintain the characters and special symbols that have distinct meanings to ensure that historical texts retain their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 H Neji , J Nogueras-Iso , J Lacasta , MÁ Latre , FJ García-Marco

Programs for extracting structured information from text, namely information extractors, often operate separately on document segments obtained from a generic splitting operation such as sentences, paragraphs, k-grams, HTTP requests, and so…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Johannes Doleschal , Benny Kimelfeld , Wim Martens , Frank Neven , Matthias Niewerth