DocTrack: A Visually-Rich Document Dataset Really Aligned with Human Eye Movement for Machine Reading

Hao Wang, Qingxuan Wang, Yue Li, Changqing Wang, Chenhui Chu, Rui Wang


Abstract
The use of visually-rich documents in various fields has created a demand for Document AI models that can read and comprehend documents like humans, which requires the overcoming of technical, linguistic, and cognitive barriers. Unfortunately, the lack of appropriate datasets has significantly hindered advancements in the field. To address this issue, we introduce DocTrack, a visually-rich document dataset really aligned with human eye-movement information using eye-tracking technology. This dataset can be used to investigate the challenges mentioned above. Additionally, we explore the impact of human reading order on document understanding tasks and examine what would happen if a machine reads in the same order as a human. Our results suggest that although Document AI models have made significant progresses, they still have a long way to go before they can read visually richer documents as accurately, continuously, and flexibly as humans do. These findings have potential implications for future research and development of document intelligence.
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2023.findings-emnlp.344
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
Year:
2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5176–5189
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.344
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.344
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Hao Wang, Qingxuan Wang, Yue Li, Changqing Wang, Chenhui Chu, and Rui Wang. 2023. DocTrack: A Visually-Rich Document Dataset Really Aligned with Human Eye Movement for Machine Reading. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 5176–5189, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DocTrack: A Visually-Rich Document Dataset Really Aligned with Human Eye Movement for Machine Reading (Wang et al., Findings 2023)
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