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Text Mining is a field that aims at extracting information from textual data. One of the challenges of such field of study comes from the pre-processing stage in which a vector (and structured) representation should be extracted from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira , Debora Maria Rossi de Medeiros , Fabricio Olivetti de França

Web Data Extraction is an important problem that has been studied by means of different scientific tools and in a broad range of applications. Many approaches to extracting data from the Web have been designed to solve specific problems and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emilio Ferrara , Pasquale De Meo , Giacomo Fiumara , Robert Baumgartner

Extracting information from documents usually relies on natural language processing methods working on one-dimensional sequences of text. In some cases, for example, for the extraction of key information from semi-structured documents, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Oliver Bensch , Mirela Popa , Constantin Spille

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with disabilities. However, it is difficult to evaluate the usefulness…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Alan Lundgard , Arvind Satyanarayan

In the view of massive content explosion in World Wide Web through diverse sources, it has become mandatory to have content filtering tools. The filtering of contents of the web pages holds greater significance in cases of access by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-02-10 K. S. Kuppusamy , G. Aghila

Key Information Extraction (KIE) underpins the understanding of visual documents (e.g., receipts and contracts) by extracting precise semantic content and accurately capturing spatial structure. Yet existing multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Son Nguyen , Giang Nguyen , Hung Dao , Thao Do , Daeyoung Kim

Semi-structured content in HTML tables, lists, and infoboxes accounts for a substantial share of factual data on the web, yet the formatting complicates usage, and reliably extracting structured information from them remains challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shicheng Liu , Kai Sun , Lisheng Fu , Xilun Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Zhaojiang Lin , Rulin Shao , Yue Liu , Anuj Kumar , Wen-tau Yih , Xin Luna Dong

Text detection in natural images is a challenging but necessary task for many applications. Existing approaches utilize large deep convolutional neural networks making it difficult to use them in real-world tasks. We propose a small yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Alexander Filonenko , Konstantin Gudkov , Aleksei Lebedev , Nikita Orlov , Ivan Zagaynov

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

A focused crawler traverses the web selecting out relevant pages to a predefined topic and neglecting those out of concern. While surfing the internet it is difficult to deal with irrelevant pages and to predict which links lead to quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Anshika Pal , Deepak Singh Tomar , S. C. Shrivastava

Lecture videos are an increasingly important learning resource for higher education. However, the challenge of quickly finding the content of interest in a lecture video is an important limitation of this format. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Mohammad Rajiur Rahman , Jaspal Subhlok , Shishir Shah

There has been a steady need to precisely extract structured knowledge from the web (i.e. HTML documents). Given a web page, extracting a structured object along with various attributes of interest (e.g. price, publisher, author, and genre…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yichao Zhou , Ying Sheng , Nguyen Vo , Nick Edmonds , Sandeep Tata

Computer vision with state-of-the-art deep learning models has achieved huge success in the field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) including text detection and recognition tasks recently. However, Key Information Extraction (KIE) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenwen Yu , Ning Lu , Xianbiao Qi , Ping Gong , Rong Xiao

Automating information extraction from form-like documents at scale is a pressing need due to its potential impact on automating business workflows across many industries like financial services, insurance, and healthcare. The key challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Beliz Gunel , Navneet Potti , Sandeep Tata , James B. Wendt , Marc Najork , Jing Xie

Extracting structured information from HTML documents is a long-studied problem with a broad range of applications, including knowledge base construction, faceted search, and personalized recommendation. Prior works rely on a few…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ritesh Sarkhel , Binxuan Huang , Colin Lockard , Prashant Shiralkar

Table of contents (ToC) extraction aims to extract headings of different levels in documents to better understand the outline of the contents, which can be widely used for document understanding and information retrieval. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Pengfei Hu , Zhenrong Zhang , Jianshu Zhang , Jun Du , Jiajia Wu

Search engines perform the task of retrieving information related to the user-supplied query words. This task has two parts; one is finding "featured words" which describe an article best and the other is finding a match among these words…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Das , M. Marko , A. Probst , M. A. Porter , C. Gershenson

Rapid increase of digitized document give birth to high demand of document image retrieval. While conventional document image retrieval approaches depend on complex OCR-based text recognition and text similarity detection, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Mao Tan , Si-Ping Yuan , Yong-Xin Su

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), more and more researchers have paid attention to information extraction based on LLMs. However, there are still some spaces to improve in the existing related methods. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiang Liu , Ge Qiu , Hao Fei , Dongdong Xie , Jinbo Li , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Information extraction (IE) from unstructured documents remains a critical challenge in data processing pipelines. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods and conventional parsing engines demonstrate limited effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Aditya Parikh