GMN: Generative Multi-modal Network for Practical Document Information Extraction
Haoyu Cao, Jiefeng Ma, Antai Guo, Yiqing Hu, Hao Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Yinsong Liu, Bo Ren
Abstract
Document Information Extraction (DIE) has attracted increasing attention due to its various advanced applications in the real world. Although recent literature has already achieved competitive results, these approaches usually fail when dealing with complex documents with noisy OCR results or mutative layouts. This paper proposes Generative Multi-modal Network (GMN) for real-world scenarios to address these problems, which is a robust multi-modal generation method without predefined label categories. With the carefully designed spatial encoder and modal-aware mask module, GMN can deal with complex documents that are hard to serialized into sequential order. Moreover, GMN tolerates errors in OCR results and requires no character-level annotation, which is vital because fine-grained annotation of numerous documents is laborious and even requires annotators with specialized domain knowledge. Extensive experiments show that GMN achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several public DIE datasets and surpasses other methods by a large margin, especially in realistic scenes.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.276
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3768–3778
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.276
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.276
- Cite (ACL):
- Haoyu Cao, Jiefeng Ma, Antai Guo, Yiqing Hu, Hao Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Yinsong Liu, and Bo Ren. 2022. GMN: Generative Multi-modal Network for Practical Document Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3768–3778, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- GMN: Generative Multi-modal Network for Practical Document Information Extraction (Cao et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2022.naacl-main.276.pdf
- Data
- FUNSD, SROIE