jonathanstray

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   by jonathanstray 7y ago

   Thanks for this. I have updated the broken links. While I do appreciate the role of a proper citation, I'm reluctant to do it for blog posts (as opposed to my actual papers) both because it's time consuming and because for most pe
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   by jonathanstray 7y ago

   Nice! An excellent baseline, something to beat.
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   by jonathanstray 7y ago

   I didn’t try separating out tables because the total field isn’t actually “inside” the table in many cases. Certainly the other fields I want are not. pdfplumber seems mostly ok at extracting tokens. Sometimes it seems to combine tokens tha
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   by jonathanstray 7y ago

   It’s not a binary classifier. Every invoice in the dataset has a total amount written somewhere on it. Accuracy here is whether the network chooses the correct token from each PDF.
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   by jonathanstray 7y ago

   Heh. It’s my work, so maybe I can clarify the goals. This is meant to be a proof of concept. I took a week and was able to show that relatively simple deep learning techniques are capable of generalizing over unseen form types with high acc
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   by jonathanstray 14y ago

   God no, don't do it in git. Otherwise no one outside of developers will ever look at it, and the whole point (as I understand it) is to bridge the tech, law, and politics worlds. So some of the primary users aren't developers and have proba