【AEW webinar】Using Deep Learning to Process Economic Data at Scale & Local Elites, Land Rents, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia
演講者簡介 : Professor Melissa Dell received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. She is currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Her research interests are Development Economics, Political Economy, and Economic History.
演講摘要 : Recent advances in document image analysis (DIA) have been primarily driven by the application of neural networks. Ideally, research outcomes could be easily deployed in production and extended for further investigation. However, various factors like loosely organized codebases and sophisticated model configurations complicate the easy reuse of important innovations by a wide audience. Though there have been on-going efforts to improve reusability and simplify deep learning (DL) model development in disciplines like natural language processing and computer vision, none of them are optimized for challenges in the domain of DIA. This represents a major gap in the existing toolkit, as DIA is central to academic research across a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. This paper introduces LayoutParser, an open-source library for streamlining the usage of DL in DIA research and applications. The core LayoutParser library comes with a set of simple and intuitive interfaces for applying and customizing DL models for layout detection, character recognition, and many other document processing tasks. To promote extensibility, LayoutParser also incorporates a community platform for sharing both pre-trained models and full document digitization pipelines. We demonstrate that LayoutParser is helpful for both lightweight and large-scale digitization pipelines in real-word use cases. The library is publicly available at https://layout-parser.github.io.
AEW Working Paper : Local Elites, Land Rents, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia
Working paper 演講者簡介 : Professor Gedeon Lim received his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2020. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are Development, Political Economy, and Economic History.
