PARDA: A dataset for scholarly PDF document metadata extraction evaluation

Abstract

Metadata extraction from scholarly PDF documents is the fundamental work of publishing, archiving, digital library construction, bibliometrics, and scientific competitiveness analysis and evaluations. However, different scholarly PDF documents have different layout and document elements, which make it impossible to compare different extract approaches since testers use different source of test documents even if the documents are from the same journal or conference. Therefore, standard datasets based performance evaluation of various extraction approaches can setup a fair and reproducible comparison. In this paper we present a dataset, namely, PARDA(Pdf Analysis and Recognition DAtaset), for performance evaluation and analysis of scholarly documents, especially on metadata extraction, such as title, authors, affiliation, author-affiliation-email matching, year, date, etc. The dataset covers computer science, physics, life science, management, mathematics, and humanities from various publishers including ACM, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, arXiv, etc. And each document has distinct layouts and appearance in terms of formatting of metadata. We also construct the ground truth metadata in Dublin Core XML format and BibTex format file associated this dataset.