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Handwritten Text Line Segmentation (HTLS) is a low-level but important task for many higher-level document processing tasks like handwritten text recognition. It is often formulated in terms of semantic segmentation or object detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Deng Li , Yue Wu , Yicong Zhou

The proliferation of data and text documents such as articles, web pages, books, social network posts, etc. on the Internet has created a fundamental challenge in various fields of text processing under the title of "automatic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kazem Taghandiki , Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi , Elnaz Rezaei Ehsan

Retrieving accurate details from documents is a crucial task, especially when handling a combination of scanned images and native digital formats. This document presents a combined framework for text extraction that merges Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Rasha Sinha , Rekha B S

We propose a method for segmentation of expository texts based on hierarchical agglomerative clustering. The method uses paragraphs as the basic segments for identifying hierarchical discourse structure in the text, applying lexical…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Yaakov Yaari

In recent years, text summarization methods have attracted much attention again thanks to the researches on neural network models. Most of the current text summarization methods based on neural network models are supervised methods which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dehao Tao , Yingzhu Xiong , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Extractive methods have been proven effective in automatic document summarization. Previous works perform this task by identifying informative contents at sentence level. However, it is unclear whether performing extraction at sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Qingyu Zhou , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

We are presenting a text analysis tool set that allows analysts in various fields to sieve through large collections of multilingual news items quickly and to find information that is of relevance to them. For a given document collection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ralf Steinberger , Bruno Pouliquen , Camelia Ignat

Distributed representation learned with neural networks has recently shown to be effective in modeling natural languages at fine granularities such as words, phrases, and even sentences. Whether and how such an approach can be extended to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Qian Chen , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhenhua Ling , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

Document chunking is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves dividing a document into meaningful segments. Traditional methods often rely solely on semantic analysis, ignoring the spatial layout of elements, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Prashant Verma

This paper surveys the current state of the art in document automation (DA). The objective of DA is to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically creating and integrating input from different sources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei , Omkar Patil , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair

We present an unsupervised deep learning method for text line segmentation that is inspired by the relative variance between text lines and spaces among text lines. Handwritten text line segmentation is important for the efficiency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Berat Kurar Barakat , Ahmad Droby , Rym Alasam , Boraq Madi , Irina Rabaev , Raed Shammes , Jihad El-Sana

The term legal research generally refers to the process of identifying and retrieving appropriate information necessary to support legal decision making from past case records. At present, the process is mostly manual, but some traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Mohamed Firdhous

Despite recent advances in the field of supervised deep learning for text line segmentation, unsupervised deep learning solutions are beginning to gain popularity. In this paper, we present an unsupervised deep learning method that embeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Berat Kurar Barakat , Ahmad Droby , Raid Saabni , Jihad El-Sana

In this paper we introduce a dynamic programming algorithm to perform linear text segmentation by global minimization of a segmentation cost function which consists of: (a) within-segment word similarity and (b) prior information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pavlina Fragkou

Deep learning has been widely used for medical image segmentation and a large number of papers has been presented recording the success of deep learning in the field. In this paper, we present a comprehensive thematic survey on medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Risheng Wang , Tao Lei , Ruixia Cui , Bingtao Zhang , Hongying Meng , Asoke K. Nandi

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

The rapid expansion of information from diverse sources has heightened the need for effective automatic text summarization, which condenses documents into shorter, coherent texts. Summarization methods generally fall into two categories:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aziz Amari , Mohamed Achref Ben Ammar

The growing demand for effective tools to parse PDF-formatted texts, particularly structured documents such as textbooks, reveals the limitations of current methods developed mainly for research paper segmentation. This work addresses the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sabine Wehnert , Harikrishnan Changaramkulath , Ernesto William De Luca

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Document Layout Analysis is a fundamental step in Handwritten Text Processing systems, from the extraction of the text lines to the type of zone it belongs to. We present a system based on artificial neural networks which is able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Lorenzo Quirós