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A figure search engine architecture for a chemistry digital library

  • Sagnik Ray Choudhury
  • , Suppawong Tuarob
  • , Prasenjit Mitra
  • , Lior Rokach
  • , Andi Kirk
  • , Silvia Szep
  • , Donald Pellegrino
  • , Sue Jones
  • , C. Lee Giles

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    31 Scopus citations

    Abstract

    Academic papers contain multiple figures representing important findings and experimental results; we present a search engine specifically focused on figures in academic documents. This search engine allows users to search on figures in approximately 150,000 chemistry journal articles though the method is easily extendable to other domains. Our system indexes figure caption and mentions extracted from the PDF in documents using a custom built extractor. Recall and precision performance of extracted figures is in the 80 to 90 % range. We give the frame work for the extraction algorithm, architecture and ranking function.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationJCDL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
    Pages369-370
    Number of pages2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 23 Aug 2013
    Event13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013 - Indianapolis, IN, United States
    Duration: 22 Jul 2013 → 26 Jul 2013

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
    ISSN (Print)1552-5996

    Conference

    Conference13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityIndianapolis, IN
    Period22/07/13 → 26/07/13

    Keywords

    • Figure search
    • Information extraction

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Engineering

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