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Shah Rukh Qasim , Hassan Mahmood , Faisal Shafait · YOU? · · 2019 · Open Access ·

Document structure analysis, such as zone segmentation and table parsing, is a complex problem in document processing and is an active area of research. The recent success of deep learning in solving various computer vision and machine learning problems has not been reflected in document structure analysis since conventional neural networks are not well suited to the input structure of the problem. In this paper, we propose an architecture based on graph networks as a better alternative to standard neural networks for table parsing. We argue that graph networks are a more natural choice for these problems, and explore two gradient-based graph neural networks. Our proposed architecture combines the benefits of convolutional neural networks for visual feature extraction and graph networks for dealing with the problem structure. We empirically demonstrate that our method outperforms the baseline by a significant margin. In addition, we identify the lack of large scale datasets as a major hindrance for deep learning research for structure analysis, and present a new large scale synthetic dataset for the problem of table parsing. Finally, we open-source our implementation of dataset generation and the training framework of our graph networks to promote reproducible research in this direction.

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Rethinking Table Parsing using Graph Neural Networks

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Shah Rukh Qasim, Hassan Mahmood, Faisal Shafait

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Computer science, Parsing, Artificial intelligence, Graph, Margin (machine learning), Convolutional neural network, Artificial neural network, Deep learning, Machine learning, Table (database), Segmentation, Theoretical computer science, Data mining

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