Abstract:
A study on the possibility of adopting a supervised inductive learning approach to the problem of document understanding is presented. A representation language used to d...Show MoreMetadata
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Abstract:
A study on the possibility of adopting a supervised inductive learning approach to the problem of document understanding is presented. A representation language used to describe a page layout is introduced and the opportunity of extending such a language by means of intentionally defined predicates is discussed. Experimental results obtained by using a well-known learning system, FOCL, are presented. They confirm the exigency of redefining the problem of document understanding in terms of a new strategy of supervised inductive learning, called contextual learning. Some experiments in which a dependence hierarchy between concepts is defined show that contextual rules increase predictive accuracy and decrease learning time for labeling problems like document understanding.<>
Published in: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR '93)
Date of Conference: 20-22 October 1993
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 06 August 2002
Print ISBN:0-8186-4960-7
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