LAMBERT: Layout-Aware language Modeling using BERT for information extraction

02/19/2020

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by   Łukasz Garncarek, et al.

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In this paper we introduce a novel approach to the problem of understanding documents where the local semantics is influenced by non-trivial layout. Namely, we modify the Transformer architecture in a way that allows it to use the graphical features defined by the layout, without the need to re-learn the language semantics from scratch, thanks to starting the training process from a model pretrained on classical language modeling tasks.