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Extracting structured data from HTML documents is a long-studied problem with a broad range of applications like augmenting knowledge bases, supporting faceted search, and providing domain-specific experiences for key verticals like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Bill Yuchen Lin , Ying Sheng , Nguyen Vo , Sandeep Tata

We propose a new technique to infer the structure and extract the tokens of data from the semi-structured web sources which are generated using a consistent template or layout with some implicit regularities. The attributes are extracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-08-06 Z. Akbar , L. T. Handoko

One of the first pre-processing steps for constructing web-scale LLM pretraining datasets involves extracting text from HTML. Despite the immense diversity of web content, existing open-source datasets predominantly apply a single fixed…

The scientific literature is growing exponentially, and professionals are no more able to cope with the current amount of publications. Text mining provided in the past methods to retrieve and extract information from text; however, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Nikola Milosevic , Cassie Gregson , Robert Hernandez , Goran Nenadic

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Tables on the web constitute a valuable data source for many applications, like factual search and knowledge base augmentation. However, as genuine tables containing relational knowledge only account for a small proportion of tables on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Babette Bühler , Heiko Paulheim

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been shown to improve knowledge capabilities and alleviate the hallucination problem of LLMs. The Web is a major source of external knowledge used in RAG systems, and many commercial RAG systems have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiejun Tan , Zhicheng Dou , Wen Wang , Mang Wang , Weipeng Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Large language models (LLMs) that have been trained on a corpus that includes large amount of code exhibit a remarkable ability to understand HTML code. As web interfaces are primarily constructed using HTML, we design an in-depth study to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Faria Huq , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Nikolas Martelaro

In this paper, we propose a method to extract descriptions of technical terms from Web pages in order to utilize the World Wide Web as an encyclopedia. We use linguistic patterns and HTML text structures to extract text fragments containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujii , Tetsuya Ishikawa

In this paper, we focused on the problem of extracting information from web pages containing many records, a task of growing importance in the era of massive web data. Recently, the development of neural network methods has improved the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Alexander Kustenkov , Maksim Varlamov , Alexander Yatskov

Web images come in hand with valuable contextual information. Although this information has long been mined for various uses such as image annotation, clustering of images, inference of image semantic content, etc., insufficient attention…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-21 F. Fauzi , H. J. Long , M. Belkhatir

There has been a steady need to precisely extract structured knowledge from the web (i.e. HTML documents). Given a web page, extracting a structured object along with various attributes of interest (e.g. price, publisher, author, and genre…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yichao Zhou , Ying Sheng , Nguyen Vo , Nick Edmonds , Sandeep Tata

Extracting information from tables in documents presents a significant challenge in many industries and in academic research. Existing methods which take a bottom-up approach of integrating lines into cells and rows or columns neglect the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Nataliya Le Vine , Matthew Zeigenfuse , Mark Rowan

The vast majority of materials science knowledge exists in unstructured natural language, yet structured data is crucial for innovative and systematic materials design. Traditionally, the field has relied on manual curation and partial…

Because of their superior ability to preserve sequence information over time, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, a type of recurrent neural network with a more complex computational unit, have obtained strong results on a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Kai Sheng Tai , Richard Socher , Christopher D. Manning

Existing works for extracting navigation objects from webpages focus on navigation menus, so as to reveal the information architecture of the site. However, web 2.0 sites such as social networks, e-commerce portals etc. are making the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Kui Zhao , Bangpeng Li , Zilun Peng , Jiajun Bu , Can Wang

Many websites with an underlying database containing structured data provide the richest and most dense source of information relevant for topical data integration. The real data integration requires sustainable and reliable pattern…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Z. Akbar , L. T. Handoko

This paper presents a method for the automated collection and aggregation of unstructured data from diverse web sources, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). The primary challenge with existing techniques is their instability when the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vsevolod Lazebnyi , Natalia Tereshkina , Maria Shabarina , Dmitriy Fedorov

This study explores three approaches to processing table data in scientific papers to enhance extractive question answering and develop a software tool for the systematic review process. The methods evaluated include: (1) Optical Character…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dongyoun Kim , Hyung-do Choi , Youngsun Jang , John Kim

Tabular data is often hidden in text, particularly in medical diagnostic reports. Traditional machine learning (ML) models designed to work with tabular data, cannot effectively process information in such form. On the other hand, large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Aleksa Bisercic , Mladen Nikolic , Mihaela van der Schaar , Boris Delibasic , Pietro Lio , Andrija Petrovic