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PCSI -- The Platform for Content-Structure Inference

Information Retrieval 2025-01-24 v1 Computers and Society

Abstract

The Platform for Content-Structure Inference (PCSI, pronounced "pixie") facilitates the sharing of information about the process of converting Web resources into structured content objects that conform to a predefined format. PCSI records encode methods for deriving structured content from classes of URLs, and report the results of applying particular methods to particular URLs. The methods are scripts written in Hex, a variant of Awk with facilities for traversing the HTML DOM.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.13272,
  title  = {PCSI -- The Platform for Content-Structure Inference},
  author = {Caleb Malchik and Joan Feigenbaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13272},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages

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