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SLATE: A Sequence Labeling Approach for Task Extraction from Free-form Inked Content

8 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.04454archive 2025-07-28

Apurva Gandhi, Ryan Serrao, Biyi Fang, Gilbert Antonius, Jenna Hong, Tra My Nguyen, Sheng Yi, Ehi Nosakhare, Irene Shaffer, Soundararajan Srinivasan, Vivek Gupta

We present SLATE, a sequence labeling approach for extracting tasks from free-form content such as digitally handwritten (or "inked") notes on a virtual whiteboard. Our approach allows us to create a single, low-latency model to simultaneously perform sentence segmentation and classification of these sentences into task/non-task sentences. SLATE greatly outperforms a baseline two-model (sentence segmentation followed by classification model) approach, achieving a task F1 score of 84.4%, a sentence segmentation (boundary similarity) score of 88.4% and three times lower latency compared to the baseline. Furthermore, we provide insights into tackling challenges of performing NLP on the inking domain. We release both our code and dataset for this novel task.

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