An End-to-End Approach for Extracting and Segmenting High-Variance References from PDF Documents

This paper addresses the problem of extracting and segmenting references from PDF documents. The novelty of the presented approach lies in its capability to discover highly varying references mainly in terms of content, length and location in the document. Unlike existing works, the proposed method...

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Published in:2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) pp. 186 - 195
Main Authors: Boukhers, Zeyd, Ambhore, Shriharsh, Staab, Steffen
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2019
Subjects:
Conditional Random Fields
Random Forest
Reference Extraction
Reference Segmentation
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Abstract This paper addresses the problem of extracting and segmenting references from PDF documents. The novelty of the presented approach lies in its capability to discover highly varying references mainly in terms of content, length and location in the document. Unlike existing works, the proposed method does not follow the classical pipeline that consists of sequential phases. It rather learns the different characteristics of references to be used in a coherent scheme that reduces the error accumulation by following a probabilistic approach. Contrary to conventional references, mentioning the sources of information in some publications, such as those of social science, is not subject to the same specifications such as being located in a unique reference section. Therefore, the proposed method aims to extract references of highly varying reference characteristics by relaxing the restrictions of existing methods. Additionally, we present in this paper a new challenging dataset of annotated references in German social science publications. The main purpose of this work is to serve the indexation of missing references by extracting them from challenging publications such as those of German social science. The effectiveness of the presented methods in terms of both extraction and segmentation is evaluated on different datasets, including the German social science set.
AbstractList This paper addresses the problem of extracting and segmenting references from PDF documents. The novelty of the presented approach lies in its capability to discover highly varying references mainly in terms of content, length and location in the document. Unlike existing works, the proposed method does not follow the classical pipeline that consists of sequential phases. It rather learns the different characteristics of references to be used in a coherent scheme that reduces the error accumulation by following a probabilistic approach. Contrary to conventional references, mentioning the sources of information in some publications, such as those of social science, is not subject to the same specifications such as being located in a unique reference section. Therefore, the proposed method aims to extract references of highly varying reference characteristics by relaxing the restrictions of existing methods. Additionally, we present in this paper a new challenging dataset of annotated references in German social science publications. The main purpose of this work is to serve the indexation of missing references by extracting them from challenging publications such as those of German social science. The effectiveness of the presented methods in terms of both extraction and segmentation is evaluated on different datasets, including the German social science set.
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Staab, Steffen
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Reference Extraction
Reference Segmentation
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