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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

Document structure extraction has been a widely researched area for decades with recent works performing it as a semantic segmentation task over document images using fully-convolution networks. Such methods are limited by image resolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Milan Aggarwal , Hiresh Gupta , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

The staggering pace with which the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are increasing, as measured by a range of commonly used natural language understanding (NLU) benchmarks, raises many questions regarding what "understanding"…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Xenia Ohmer , Elia Bruni , Dieuwke Hupkes

Structured data offers a sophisticated mechanism for the organization of information. Existing methodologies for the text-serialization of structured data in the context of large language models fail to adequately address the heterogeneity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 YiQiu Guo , Yuchen Yang , Ya Zhang , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Understanding documents is central to many real-world tasks but remains a challenging topic. Unfortunately, there is no well-established consensus on how to comprehensively evaluate document understanding abilities, which significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ruoxi Xu , Hongyu Lin , Xinyan Guan , Xianpei Han , Yingfei Sun , Le Sun

Recent works on form understanding mostly employ multimodal transformers or large-scale pre-trained language models. These models need ample data for pre-training. In contrast, humans can usually identify key-value pairings from a form only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja , Lizhen Qu , Fatemeh Shiri

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,…

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We call on the Document AI (DocAI) community to reevaluate current methodologies and embrace the challenge of creating more practically-oriented benchmarks. Document Understanding Dataset and Evaluation (DUDE) seeks to remediate the halted…

The field of visually rich document understanding (VRDU) aims to solve a multitude of well-researched NLP tasks in a multi-modal domain. Several datasets exist for research on specific tasks of VRDU such as document classification (DC), key…

Previous works on Natural Language Generation (NLG) from structured data have primarily focused on surface-level descriptions of record sequences. However, for complex structured data, e.g., multi-row tables, it is often desirable for an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhiyu Chen , Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Xiyou Zhou , Yunkai Zhang , Sairam Sundaresan , William Yang Wang

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…

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When reading a document, glancing at the spatial layout of a document is an initial step to understand it roughly. Traditional document layout analysis (DLA) methods, however, offer only a superficial parsing of documents, focusing on basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Form understanding is a challenging problem which aims to recognize semantic entities from the input document and their hierarchical relations. Previous approaches face significant difficulty dealing with the complexity of the task, thus…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tuan-Anh Nguyen Dang , Duc-Thanh Hoang , Quang-Bach Tran , Chih-Wei Pan , Thanh-Dat Nguyen

Deep learning-based approaches for automatic document layout analysis and content extraction have the potential to unlock rich information trapped in historical documents on a large scale. One major hurdle is the lack of large datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Zejiang Shen , Kaixuan Zhang , Melissa Dell

Structure information extraction refers to the task of extracting structured text fields from web pages, such as extracting a product offer from a shopping page including product title, description, brand and price. It is an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Qifan Wang , Yi Fang , Anirudh Ravula , Fuli Feng , Xiaojun Quan , Dongfang Liu

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of research works on the topic of form understanding in the context of scanned documents. We delve into recent advancements and breakthroughs in the field, highlighting the significance of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Daniel Eberharter , Zoe Pfister , Adam Jatowt

Forms are a widespread type of template-based document used in a great variety of fields including, among others, administration, medicine, finance, or insurance. The automatic extraction of the information included in these documents is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 María Villota , César Domínguez , Jónathan Heras , Eloy Mata , Vico Pascual

Structured document understanding has attracted considerable attention and made significant progress recently, owing to its crucial role in intelligent document processing. However, most existing related models can only deal with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jiapeng Wang , Lianwen Jin , Kai Ding

Transformer-based models have achieved remarkable success in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, yet their ability to handle long documents is constrained by computational limitations. Traditional approaches, such as truncating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yan Li , Soyeon Caren Han , Yue Dai , Feiqi Cao

This paper presents a high-quality multilingual dataset for the documentation domain to advance research on localization of structured text. Unlike widely-used datasets for translation of plain text, we collect XML-structured parallel text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kazuma Hashimoto , Raffaella Buschiazzo , James Bradbury , Teresa Marshall , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong