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The structure of a type of documents described in a common format like legal judgments can be expressed by and extracted by using syntax rules. In this paper, we propose a novel method for document structure analysis, based on a method to describe syntactic structure of documents with an abstract document model, and a method to implement a document structure parser by a combination of syntactic parsers. The parser implemented with this method has high generality and extensibility, thus it works well for a variety of document types with common description format, especially for legal documents such as judgments and legislations, while achieving high accuracy.
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Igari, H., Shimazu, A., Ochimizu, K. (2012). Document Structure Analysis with Syntactic Model and Parsers: Application to Legal Judgments. In: Okumura, M., Bekki, D., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32090-3_12
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