STAPI: An Automatic Scraper for Extracting Iterative Title-Text Structure from Web Documents (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Formal documents are organized into sections of text, each with a title . but there is no corpus of web documents annotated with titles and prose texts . cnn.com's john mccarthy and daniel mclears are working on a new title-text dataset . |
| Approach: | They propose a first title-text dataset on web documents that incorporates a wide variety of domains to facilitate downstream training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms baseline models in terms of title-text identification. |
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