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To address the challenges of table structure recognition, we propose a novel Split-Merge-based top-down model optimized for large, densely populated tables. Our approach formulates row and column splitting as sequence labeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Hou , Jun Wang

Legal Entity Recognition (LER) is critical in automating legal workflows such as contract analysis, compliance monitoring, and litigation support. Existing approaches, including rule-based systems and classical machine learning models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Duraimurugan Rajamanickam

We present KPI-BERT, a system which employs novel methods of named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) to extract and link key performance indicators (KPIs), e.g. "revenue" or "interest expenses", of companies from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Lars Hillebrand , Tobias Deußer , Tim Dilmaghani , Bernd Kliem , Rüdiger Loitz , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Scientific documents contain tables that list important information in a concise fashion. Structure and content extraction from tables embedded within PDF research documents is a very challenging task due to the existence of visual features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

Text segmentation holds paramount importance in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It plays an important role in several NLP downstream tasks like information retrieval and document summarization. In this work, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Majd Saleh , Sarra Baghdadi , Stéphane Paquelet

Table extraction (TE) is a key challenge in visual document understanding. Traditional approaches detect tables first, then recognize their structure. Recently, interest has surged in developing methods, such as vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Brandon Smock , Valerie Faucon-Morin , Max Sokolov , Libin Liang , Tayyibah Khanam , Amrit Ramesh , Maury Courtland

Understanding documents with rich layouts is an essential step towards information extraction. Business intelligence processes often require the extraction of useful semantic content from documents at a large scale for subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sanket Biswas , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Workbook-scale spreadsheet understanding is increasingly important for language-model-based data analysis agents, but remains challenging because relevant information is often distributed across multiple sheets with heterogeneous schemas,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiming Lei , Yiqi Wang , Yujia Zhang , Bo Guan , Depei Zhu , Chunhui Wang , Zhuonan Hao , Tianyu Shi

We introduce a simple new approach to the problem of understanding documents where non-trivial layout influences the local semantics. To this end, we modify the Transformer encoder architecture in a way that allows it to use layout features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Łukasz Garncarek , Rafał Powalski , Tomasz Stanisławek , Bartosz Topolski , Piotr Halama , Michał Turski , Filip Graliński

Extraction of transaction information from bank statements is required to assess one's financial well-being for credit rating and underwriting decisions. Unlike other financial documents such as tax forms or financial statements, extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Abhishek Trivedi , Sourajit Mukherjee , Rajat Kumar Singh , Vani Agarwal , Sriranjani Ramakrishnan , Himanshu S. Bhatt

Documents are often used for knowledge sharing and preservation in business and science, within which are tables that capture most of the critical data. Unfortunately, most documents are stored and distributed as PDF or scanned images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Xinyi Zheng , Doug Burdick , Lucian Popa , Xu Zhong , Nancy Xin Ru Wang

We introduce a new table detection and structure recognition approach named RobusTabNet to detect the boundaries of tables and reconstruct the cellular structure of each table from heterogeneous document images. For table detection, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chixiang Ma , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

Key information extraction from document images is of paramount importance in office automation. Conventional template matching based approaches fail to generalize well to document images of unseen templates, and are not robust against text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Hongbin Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Xiaoyu Yue , Chenhao Lin , Wayne Zhang

We introduce Clinical ModernBERT, a transformer based encoder pretrained on large scale biomedical literature, clinical notes, and medical ontologies, incorporating PubMed abstracts, MIMIC IV clinical data, and medical codes with their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Simon A. Lee , Anthony Wu , Jeffrey N. Chiang

Publicly traded companies are required to submit periodic reports with eXtensive Business Reporting Language (XBRL) word-level tags. Manually tagging the reports is tedious and costly. We, therefore, introduce XBRL tagging as a new entity…

The extraction and use of diverse knowledge from numerous documents is a pressing challenge in intelligent information retrieval. Documents contain elements that require different recognition methods. Table recognition typically consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Takaya Kawakatsu

This paper presents an application of the LayoutLMv3 model for semantic table detection on financial documents from the IIIT-AR-13K dataset. The motivation behind this paper's experiment was that LayoutLMv3's official paper had no results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ivan Silajev , Niels Victor , Phillip Mortimer

Table detection is the task of classifying and localizing table objects within document images. With the recent development in deep learning methods, we observe remarkable success in table detection. However, a significant amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

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

A significant portion of the data available today is found within tables. Therefore, it is necessary to use automated table extraction to obtain thorough results when data-mining. Today's popular state-of-the-art methods for table…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zach Colter , Morteza Fayazi , Zineb Benameur-El , Serafina Kamp , Shuyan Yu , Ronald Dreslinski