Logical Structure Recognition of Scientific Bibliographic References
Abstract
In this paper, we are presenting an approach for the logical structure recognition of bibliographic references. The objective is to produce, for each reference (given in a display format, as postscript), structured data containing the hierarchy of fields recognized. As a result of variation among bibliographic references (in order and typographic format of fields, or writing style of the author, for example), we need a robust and tolerant system architecture. Thus, recognition is performed by a concept-oriented system that uses a model automatically built from a reference database. This model represents the reference fields and includes statistics on the occurrence of their terms. Recognition is achieved by a step-by-step activation of the more pertinent concepts. Each activated concept causes the execution of an appropriate searching agent. This architecture is robust and non-deterministic, allowing a solution even in difficult cases.