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Web2Text: Deep Structured Boilerplate Removal

Information Retrieval 2018-03-28 v3

Abstract

Web pages are a valuable source of information for many natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. Extracting the main content from those documents is essential for the performance of derived applications. To address this issue, we introduce a novel model that performs sequence labeling to collectively classify all text blocks in an HTML page as either boilerplate or main content. Our method uses a hidden Markov model on top of potentials derived from DOM tree features using convolutional neural networks. The proposed method sets a new state-of-the-art performance for boilerplate removal on the CleanEval benchmark. As a component of information retrieval pipelines, it improves retrieval performance on the ClueWeb12 collection.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02607,
  title  = {Web2Text: Deep Structured Boilerplate Removal},
  author = {Thijs Vogels and Octavian-Eugen Ganea and Carsten Eickhoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02607},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To appear in ECIR 2018

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