Hypergraph based Understanding for Document Semantic Entity Recognition (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing document understanding models focus on entity categories while ignoring the extraction of entity boundaries. |
| Approach: | They propose a hypergraph attention document semantic entity recognition framework which uses hypergraph focus to focus on entity boundaries and entity categories at the same time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can improve the performance of existing models on FUNSD, CORD, XFUND and SROIE. |
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