Style-independent document labeling: design and performance evaluation

Song Mao; Jong Woo Kim; George R. Thoma

doi:10.1117/12.532039

15 December 2003 Style-independent document labeling: design and performance evaluation

Song Mao, Jong Woo Kim, George R. Thoma

Proceedings Volume 5296, Document Recognition and Retrieval XI; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.532039
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The Medical Article Records System or MARS has been developed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) for automated data entry of bibliographical information from medical journals into MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic citation database at NLM. Currently, a rule-based algorithm (called ZoneCzar) is used for labeling important bibliographical fields (title, author, affiliation, and abstract) on medical journal article page images. While rules have been created for medical journals with regular layout types, new rules have to be manually created for any input journals with arbitrary or new layout types. Therefore, it is of interest to label any journal articles independent of their layout styles. In this paper, we first describe a system (called ZoneMatch) for automated generation of crucial geometric and non-geometric features of important bibliographical fields based on string-matching and clustering techniques. The rule based algorithm is then modified to use these features to perform style-independent labeling. We then describe a performance evaluation method for quantitatively evaluating our algorithm and characterizing its error distributions. Experimental results show that the labeling performance of the rule-based algorithm is significantly improved when the generated features are used.

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Song Mao, Jong Woo Kim, and George R. Thoma "Style-independent document labeling: design and performance evaluation", Proc. SPIE 5296, Document Recognition and Retrieval XI, (15 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.532039

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