Information extraction from the structured part of office documents

Information Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 245-274

  Hao, Xiaolong ^a   Wang, Jason T L ^b   Ng, Peter A ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FILE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

APPROXIMATE TREE MATCHING METHOD; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; OFFICE DOCUMENTS; SAMPLE BASED APPROACH;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0030168397     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0255(96)00037-0     Document Type: Article

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