Problem Solved? Information Extraction Design Space for Layout-Rich Documents using LLMs (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a new open-source layout-aware IE test suite is available for download at https://github.com/gayecolakoglu/layIE-LLM. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source layout-aware IE test suite that provides a layout-based IE pipeline. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves 13.3–37.5 F1 points more than a baseline configuration using the same LLM. |
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