Information Extraction (IE) from Documents Task

An Information Extraction (IE) from Documents Task is an information extraction task that a document analysis task (whose input is a document set).

• Context:
  • It can be solved by a IE from Documents System (that implements an IE from documents algorithm).
  • It can range from being IE from Image Documents, IE from Text, IE from Tables, IE from Document Metadata (such as citation network).
  • It can range from being a IE from Simple Documents to being a IE from Multimedia Documents.
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• Example(s):
  • Extracting Information from Biomedical Articles.
  • Extracting Information from Webpages.
  • Extracting Information from Receipt Images.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Information Retrieval.
• See: Document Corpus.

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