Sequence assembly

[wehlutyk]

Sequence assembly (thank you bioinformatics, again!) could be adapted to piece objects together using probabilities that they follow each other.

Ideas on what this could use:

• n-grams
• positioning heuristics (or learned):
  • if two blocks are positioned such that really follow each other, it's highly probable that they follow each other in content
  • a block NW of another block can't be the subsequent piece of content (you can only move in the NE, SE, SW quadrants)
• formatting: content blocks that follow each other should have similar formatting (except cases like when it's a title that comes next)
• linking figures and footnotes to the main text could be done using the numbers that appear in the main text, assuming we can classify figures and footnotes as such before (or at the same time as) inferring the body text sequence.