4 papers
Two-Step Occupation Coding
Alexander M. Esser, Jens Dörpinghaus
Occupation coding links job titles in free text to occupational taxonomies and is a core task in labor market research. Existing approaches typically address this problem in a sing…
Scuba Diving Graphs
Alexander M. Esser
Scuba divers form small and structured social groups that are well suited for analysis using methods from Computational Social Science (CSS). This paper proposes a conceptual graph…
Noise-Aware Named Entity Recognition for Historical VET Documents
Alexander M. Esser, Jens Dörpinghaus
This paper addresses Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the domain of Vocational Education and Training (VET), focusing on historical, digitized documents that suffer from OCR-induc…
Flexible Table Recognition and Semantic Interpretation System
Marcin Namysl, Alexander M. Esser, Sven Behnke +1
Table extraction is an important but still unsolved problem. In this paper, we introduce a flexible and modular table extraction system. We develop two rule-based algorithms that p…