ETDPC: A Multimodality Framework for Classifying Pages in Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1609/aaai.v38i21.30324

Publication Title

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volume

38

Issue

21

Pages

22878-22884

Conference Name

Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, Canada

Abstract

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) have been proposed, advocated, and generated for more than 25 years. Although ETDs are hosted by commercial or institutional digital library repositories, they are still an understudied type of scholarly big data, partially because they are usually longer than conference and journal papers. Segmenting ETDs will allow researchers to study sectional content. Readers can navigate to particular pages of interest, to discover and explore the content buried in these long documents. Most existing frameworks on document page classification are designed for classifying general documents, and perform poorly on ETDs. In this paper, we propose ETDPC. Its backbone is a two-stream multimodal model with a cross-attention network to classify ETD pages into 13 categories. To overcome the challenge of imbalanced labeled samples, we augmented data for minority categories and employed a hierarchical classifier. ETDPC outperforms the state-of-the-art models in all categories, achieving an F1 of 0.84 -- 0.96 for 9 out of 13 categories. We also demonstrated its data efficiency. The code and data can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/lamps-lab/ETDMiner/tree/master/etd_segmentation).

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Data Availability

Article states: "The code and data can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/lamps-lab/ETDMiner/tree/master/etd_segmentation)."

Original Publication Citation

Choudhury, M. H., Salsabil, L., Ingram, W. A., Fox, E. A., & Wu, J. (2024). ETDPC: A multimodality framework for classifying pages in electronic theses and dissertations. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38(21) 22878-22884. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i21.30324

ORCID

0000-0002-9318-8844 (Choudhury), 0000-0002-6162-2896 (Salsabil), 0000-0003-0173-4463 (Wu)

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