Text Role Classification in Scientific Charts Using Multimodal Transformers
Text role classification involves classifying the semantic role of textual elements within scientific charts. For this task, we propose to finetune two pretrained multimodal document layout analysis models, LayoutLMv3 and UDOP, on chart datasets. The transformers utilize the three modalities of text, image, and layout as input. We further investigate whether data augmentation and balancing methods help the performance of the models. The models are evaluated on various chart datasets, and results show that LayoutLMv3 outperforms UDOP in all experiments. LayoutLMv3 achieves the highest F1-macro score of 82.87 on the ICPR22 test dataset, beating the best-performing model from the ICPR22 CHART-Infographics challenge. Moreover, the robustness of the models is tested on a synthetic noisy dataset ICPR22-N. Finally, the generalizability of the models is evaluated on three chart datasets, CHIME-R, DeGruyter, and EconBiz, for which we added labels for the text roles. Findings indicate that even in cases where there is limited training data, transformers can be used with the help of data augmentation and balancing methods. The source code and datasets are available on GitHub under https://github.com/hjkimk/text-role-classification
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