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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 integrating input from different sources and assembling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei , Omkar Patil , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair

After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented amount of historical documents is available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a major step forward with respect to preservation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maud Ehrmann , Ahmed Hamdi , Elvys Linhares Pontes , Matteo Romanello , Antoine Doucet

Structure extraction from document images has been a long-standing research topic due to its high impact on a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we share our findings on employing a hierarchical semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Mausoom Sarkar , Milan Aggarwal , Arneh Jain , Hiresh Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Text line detection and localization is a crucial step for full page document analysis, but still suffers from heterogeneity of real life documents. In this paper, we present a new approach for full page text recognition. Localization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Bastien Moysset , Christopher Kermorvant , Christian Wolf

Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to many fields of science and philanthropy, but are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Alexander Robertson , Jasmina Lazic , Theodora Tsouloufi , Louise Donnison , Karen Smyth

We introduce the task of historical text summarisation, where documents in historical forms of a language are summarised in the corresponding modern language. This is a fundamentally important routine to historians and digital humanities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xutan Peng , Yi Zheng , Chenghua Lin , Advaith Siddharthan

Text Categorization (TC), also known as Text Classification, is the task of automatically classifying a set of text documents into different categories from a predefined set. If a document belongs to exactly one of the categories, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Vishwanath Bijalwan , Pinki Kumari , Jordan Pascual , Vijay Bhaskar Semwal

One type of machine learning, text classification, is now regularly applied in the legal matters involving voluminous document populations because it can reduce the time and expense associated with the review of those documents. One form of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Rishi Chhatwal , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Robert Keeling , Jianping Zhang , Haozhen Zhao

The escalating number of pending cases is a growing concern world-wide. Recent advancements in digitization have opened up possibilities for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the processing of legal documents. Adopting a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Subinay Adhikary , Sagnik Das , Sagnik Saha , Procheta Sen , Dwaipayan Roy , Kripabandhu Ghosh

Text classification is the most fundamental and essential task in natural language processing. The last decade has seen a surge of research in this area due to the unprecedented success of deep learning. Numerous methods, datasets, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Qian Li , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Congying Xia , Renyu Yang , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

Advances in large language models have notably enhanced the efficiency of information extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data sources. As these technologies become integral to various applications, establishing an objective…

Document understanding and information extraction include different tasks to understand a document and extract valuable information automatically. Recently, there has been a rising demand for developing document understanding among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Soyeon Caren Han , Yihao Ding , Siwen Luo , Josiah Poon , HeeGuen Yoon , Zhe Huang , Paul Duuring , Eun Jung Holden

Extracting the reported events from text is one of the key research themes in natural language processing. This process includes several tasks such as event detection, argument extraction, role labeling. As one of the most important topics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Viet Dac Lai

Recently, automatically extracting information from visually rich documents (e.g., tickets and resumes) has become a hot and vital research topic due to its widespread commercial value. Most existing methods divide this task into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhanzhan Cheng , Peng Zhang , Can Li , Qiao Liang , Yunlu Xu , Pengfei Li , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

The Handwritten Text Recognition problem has been a challenge for researchers for the last few decades, especially in the domain of computer vision, a subdomain of pattern recognition. Variability of texts amongst writers, cursiveness, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Lalita Kumari , Sukhdeep Singh , Vaibhav Varish Singh Rathore , Anuj Sharma

The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process of text analysis. The effectiveness of text summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe , Nipuna Senanayake

Most tools for accessing digitized historical newspapers emphasize relatively simple search; but, as increasing numbers of digitized historical newspapers and other historical resources become available we can consider much richer modes of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Robert B. Allen

Word segmentation, the problem of finding word boundaries in speech, is of interest for a range of tasks. Previous papers have suggested that for sequence-to-sequence models trained on tasks such as speech translation or speech recognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ramon Sanabria , Hao Tang , Sharon Goldwater

This paper presents a framework for semi-automatic transcription of large-scale historical handwritten documents and proposes a simple user-friendly text extractor tool, TexT for transcription. The proposed approach provides a quick and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Anders Hast , Per Cullhed , Ekta Vats

Language segmentation consists in finding the boundaries where one language ends and another language begins in a text written in more than one language. This is important for all natural language processing tasks. The problem can be solved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-07 David Alfter