Stacked Dependency Networks for Layout Document Structuring

Boris Chidlovskii (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

Loïc Lecerf (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

Abstract: We address the problems of structuring and annotation of layout-oriented documents.We model the annotation problems as the collective classification on graph-like structures with typed instances and links that capture the domain-specific knowledge. We use the relational de-pendency networks (RDNs) for the collective inference on the multi-typed graphs. We then describe a variant of RDNs where a stacked approximation replaces the Gibbs sampling in orderto accelerate the inference. We report results of evaluation tests for both the Gibbs sampling and stacking inference on two document structuring examples.

Keywords: dependency networks, document structuring, stacking

Categories: H.2, H.3.7, H.5.4