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Table extraction using conditional random fields

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Andrew McCallum,

W. Bruce CroftAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

Pages 235 - 242

https://doi.org/10.1145/860435.860479

Published: 28 July 2003 Publication History

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The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of data mining, question answering, and other information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate densely packed, multi-dimensional information. Tables do this by employing layout patterns to efficiently indicate fields and records in two-dimensional form.Their rich combination of formatting and content present difficulties for traditional language modeling techniques, however. This paper presents the use of conditional random fields (CRFs) for table extraction, and compares them with hidden Markov models (HMMs). Unlike HMMs, CRFs support the use of many rich and overlapping layout and language features, and as a result, they perform significantly better. We show experimental results on plain-text government statistical reports in which tables are located with 92% F1, and their constituent lines are classified into 12 table-related categories with 94% accuracy. We also discuss future work on undirected graphical models for segmenting columns, finding cells, and classifying them as data cells or label cells.

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SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

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