Automatic extraction of metadata using a neural network

Details Automatic extraction of metadata using a neural network Automatic extraction of metadata using a neural network

1998-04-30

2000-03-28

Kulik, Paul V.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707102, 706 20, 706934, G06F 1730

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060443758

ABSTRACT:
A method of automatically extracting metadata from a document. The method of the invention provides a computer readable document that includes blocks comprised of words, an authority list that includes common uses of a set of words, and a neural network trained to extract metadata from groupings of data called compounds. Compounds are created with one compound describing each of the blocks. Each compound includes the words making up the block, descriptive information about the blocks, and authority information associated with some of the words. The descriptive information may include such items as bounding box information, describing the size and position of the block, and font information, describing the size and type of font the words of the block use. The authority information is located by comparing each the words from the block to the authority list. The compounds are processed through the neural network to generate metadata guesses including word guesses, compound guesses and document guesses along with confidence factors associated with the guesses indicating the likelihood that each of the guesses is correct. The method may additionally include providing a document knowledge base of positioning information and size information for metadata in known documents. If the document knowledge base is provided, then the method includes deriving analysis data from the metadata guess and comparing the analysis data to the document knowledge base to determine metadata output.

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