Computer understanding of document structure

✍ Scribed by Andreas Dengel; Frank Dubiel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 660 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-9457
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1098(199624)7:4<271::aid-ima2>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

We describe a system which is capable of learning the presentation of document logical structure, exemplary as shown for business letters. Presenting a set of instances to the system, it clusters them into structural concepts and induces a concept hierarchy. This concept hierarchy is taken as a reference for classifying future input. The article introduces the sequence of learning steps and describes how the resulting concept hierarchy is applied to logical labeling, and reports the results.