Title
Table extraction and understanding for scientific and enterprise applications
Abstract
AbstractValuable high-precision data are often published in the form of tables in both scientific and business documents. While humans can easily identify, interpret and contextualize tables, developing general-purpose automated techniques for extraction of information from tables is difficult due to the wide variety of table formats employed across corpora.To extract useful data from tables, data cells must be correctly extracted and linked to all relevant headers, units of measure and in-text references. Table extraction involves identifying the border and cell structure for each document table, while table understanding provides context by linking cells with semantic information inside and outside the table, such as row and column headers, footnotes, titles, and references in surrounding text.The objective of this tutorial is to provide a detailed synopsis of existing approaches for table extraction and understanding, highlight open research problems, and provide an overview of potential applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.14778/3415478.3415563
Hosted Content
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
13
12
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2150-8097
1
0.43
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Douglas Burdick122618.54
Marina Danilevsky221.79
Alexandre V. Evfimievski350141.76
Yannis Katsis4153.12
Nancy Xin Ru Wang510.77