New evaluation framework for metadata mapping approaches based on Markov models.

Document annotation is considered as the definition of logical and physical structures of document. Several works for page layout analysis have been presented but there is no standard annotation for one document. In order to draw the relationship between these different presentations, a Mapping should be applied between different annotations. The question that should be answered is how efficient is this Mapping? We present in this paper a framework allowing the generation of a standard annotation for each document database. The description of the page layout analysis is based on XML metadata. The Mapping is applied between the standard document and a new document in order to allow the correspondence between them. The Mapping is evaluated using a proposed model based on Markov models. The results show that the probability rate for the Mapping evaluation varies from 0.6 to 1.