Processing the structure of documents: Logical Layout Analysis of historical newspapers in French. (arXiv:2202.08125v1 [cs.CL])

Background. In recent years, libraries and archives led important
digitisation campaigns that opened the access to vast collections of historical
documents. While such documents are often available as XML ALTO documents, they
lack information about their logical structure. In this paper, we address the
problem of Logical Layout Analysis applied to historical documents in French.
We propose a rule-based method, that we evaluate and compare with two
Machine-Learning models, namely RIPPER and Gradient Boosting. Our data set
contains French newspapers, …

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