PLAtE: A Large-scale Dataset for List Page Web Extraction

Aidan San, Yuan Zhuang, Jan Bakus, Colin Lockard, David Ciemiewicz, Sandeep Atluri, Kevin Small, Yangfeng Ji, Heba Elfardy

Abstract
Recently, neural models have been leveraged to significantly improve the performance of information extraction from semi-structured websites. However, a barrier for continued progress is the small number of datasets large enough to train these models. In this work, we introduce the PLAtE (Pages of Lists Attribute Extraction) benchmark dataset as a challenging new web extraction task. PLAtE focuses on shopping data, specifically extractions from product review pages with multiple items encompassing the tasks of: (1) finding product list segmentation boundaries and (2) extracting attributes for each product. PLAtE is composed of 52,898 items collected from 6,694 pages and 156,014 attributes, making it the first large-scale list page web extraction dataset. We use a multi-stage approach to collect and annotate the dataset and adapt three state-of-the-art web extraction models to the two tasks comparing their strengths and weaknesses both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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2023.acl-industry.27
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Aidan San, Yuan Zhuang, Jan Bakus, Colin Lockard, David Ciemiewicz, Sandeep Atluri, Kevin Small, Yangfeng Ji, and Heba Elfardy. 2023. PLAtE: A Large-scale Dataset for List Page Web Extraction. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track), pages 284–294, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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