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I gave this talk in the EDBT 2014 conference, which tool place in Athens, Greece.
I show how data examples can be used to characterize the behavior of scientific modules. I present a new methods that automatically generate the data examples, and show that such data examples are useful for the human user to understand the task of the modules, and that they can be used to assist curators in repairing broken workflows (i.e., workflows for which one or more modules are no longer supplied by their providers)
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Web pages not only contain main content, but also other elements such as navigation panels,
advertisements and links to related documents. To ensure the high quality of web page, a good boilerplate
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just included in HTML source code which makes up the files. The goal of content extraction or boilerplate
detection is to separate the main content from navigation chrome, advertising blocks, and copyright notices
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Web pages not only contain main content, but also other elements such as navigation panels,
advertisements and links to related documents. To ensure the high quality of web page, a good boilerplate
removal algorithm is needed to extract only the relevant contents from web page. Main textual contents are
just included in HTML source code which makes up the files. The goal of content extraction or boilerplate
detection is to separate the main content from navigation chrome, advertising blocks, and copyright notices
in web pages. The system removes boilerplate and extracts main content. In this system, there are two
phases: Feature Extraction phase and Clustering phase. The system classifies the noise or content from
HTML web page. Content Extraction algorithm describes to get high performance without parsing DOM
trees. After observation the HTML tags, one line may not contain a piece of complete information and long
texts are distributed in close lines, this system uses Line-Block concept to determine the distance of any
two neighbor lines with text and Feature Extraction such as text-to-tag ratio (TTR), anchor text-to-text
ratio (ATTR) and new content feature as Title Keywords Density (TKD) classifies noise or content. After
extracting the features, the system uses these features as parameters in threshold method to classify the
block are content or non- content.
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Homology modeling, also known as comparative modeling of protein, refers to constructing an atomic-resolution model of the "target" protein from its amino acid sequence and an experimental three-dimensional structure of a related homologous protein (the "template").
The previous research has focused on quick and efficient generation of wrappers; the
development of tools for wrapper maintenance has received less attention. This is an important research
problem because Web sources often change in ways that prevent the wrappers from extracting data
correctly. Present an efficient algorithm that extract unstructured data to structural data from web. The
wrapper verification system detects when a wrapper is not extracting correct data, usually because the
Web source has changed its format. The Verification framework automatically recovers data using
Dimension Reduction Techniques from changes in the Web source by identifying data on Web pages.
After apply wrapped data to One Class Classification in Numerical features for avoid classification
problem. Finally, the result data apply in Top-K query for provide best rank based on probabilities
scores. Wrapper verification system relies on one-class classification techniques to beat previous
weaknesses to identify the problem by analysing both the signature and the classifier output. If there are
sufficient mislabelled slots, a technique to find a pattern could be explored.
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Extraction of Data Using Comparable Entity Miningiosrjce
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Web pages not only contain main content, but also other elements such as navigation panels,
advertisements and links to related documents. To ensure the high quality of web page, a good boilerplate
removal algorithm is needed to extract only the relevant contents from web page. Main textual contents are
just included in HTML source code which makes up the files. The goal of content extraction or boilerplate
detection is to separate the main content from navigation chrome, advertising blocks, and copyright notices
in web pages. The system removes boilerplate and extracts main content. In this system, there are two
phases: Feature Extraction phase and Clustering phase. The system classifies the noise or content from
HTML web page. Content Extraction algorithm describes to get high performance without parsing DOM
trees. After observation the HTML tags, one line may not contain a piece of complete information and long
texts are distributed in close lines, this system uses Line-Block concept to determine the distance of any
two neighbor lines with text and Feature Extraction such as text-to-tag ratio (TTR), anchor text-to-text
ratio (ATTR) and new content feature as Title Keywords Density (TKD) classifies noise or content. After
extracting the features, the system uses these features as parameters in threshold method to classify the
block are content or non- content.
Image result for homology modeling
Homology modeling, also known as comparative modeling of protein, refers to constructing an atomic-resolution model of the "target" protein from its amino acid sequence and an experimental three-dimensional structure of a related homologous protein (the "template").
The previous research has focused on quick and efficient generation of wrappers; the
development of tools for wrapper maintenance has received less attention. This is an important research
problem because Web sources often change in ways that prevent the wrappers from extracting data
correctly. Present an efficient algorithm that extract unstructured data to structural data from web. The
wrapper verification system detects when a wrapper is not extracting correct data, usually because the
Web source has changed its format. The Verification framework automatically recovers data using
Dimension Reduction Techniques from changes in the Web source by identifying data on Web pages.
After apply wrapped data to One Class Classification in Numerical features for avoid classification
problem. Finally, the result data apply in Top-K query for provide best rank based on probabilities
scores. Wrapper verification system relies on one-class classification techniques to beat previous
weaknesses to identify the problem by analysing both the signature and the classifier output. If there are
sufficient mislabelled slots, a technique to find a pattern could be explored.
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Extraction of Data Using Comparable Entity Miningiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
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Evaluation of a hybrid method for constructing multiple SVM kernelsinfopapers
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Adaptive web page content identification
1. Adaptive Web-page Content Identification Author: John Gibson, Ben Wellner, Susan Lubar Publication: WIDM’2007 Presenter: Jhih-Ming Chen 1
2. Outline Introduction Content Identification as Sequence Labeling Models Conditional Random Fields Maximum Entropy Classifier Maximum Entropy Markov Models Data Harvesting and Annotation Dividing into Blocks Experimental Setup Results and Analysis Conclusion and Feature Work 2
3. Introduction Web pages containing news stories also include many other pieces of extraneous information such as navigation bars, JavaScript, images and advertisements. This paper’s goal: Detect identical and near duplicate articles within a set of web pages from a conglomerate of websites. Why do this work? Provide input for an application such as a Natural Language tool or for an index for a search engine. Re-display it on a small screen such as a cell phone or PDA. 3
4. Introduction Typically, content extraction is done via a hand-crafted tool targeted to handle a single web page format. Shortcoming: When the page format changes, the extractor is likely to break. It is labor intensive. Web page formats change fairly quickly and custom extractors often become obsolete a short time after they are written. Some websites use multiple formats concurrently and identifying each one and handling them properly makes this a complex task. In general, the site-specific extractors are unworkable as a long-term solution. The approach described in this paper is meant to overcome these issues. 4
5. Introduction The data set for this work consisted of web pages from 27 different news sites. Identifying portions of relevant content in web-pages can be construed as a sequence labeling problem. i.e. each document is broken into a sequence of blocks and the task is to label each block as Content or NotContent. The best system, based on Conditional Random Fields, can correctly identify individual Content blocks with recall above 99.5% and precision above 97.9%. 5
6. Content Identification as Sequence Labeling Problem description Identify the portions of news-source web-pages that contain relevant content – i.e. the news article itself. Two general ways to approach this problem: Boundary Detection Method Identify positions where content begins and ends. Sequence Labeling Method Divide the original Web document into a sequence of some appropriately sized units or blocks. Categorize each block as Content or NotContent. 6
7. Content Identification as Sequence Labeling In this work, the authors focus largely on the sequence labeling method. Shortcomings of boundary detection methods: A number of web pages contain ‘noncontiguous’ content. The paragraphs of the article body have other page content, such as advertisements, interspersed. Boundary detection methods aren’t able to nicely model transitions from Content to NotContentback to Content. If a boundary is not identified at all, an entire section of content can be missed. When developing a statistical classifier to identify boundaries, there are many, many more negative examples of boundaries than positive ones. Itmay be possible to sub-sample negative examples or identifysome reasonable set of candidate boundaries and train a classifieron those, but this complicates matters greatly. 7
8. Models This section describes the three statistical sequence labeling models employed in the experiments: Conditional Random Fields (CRF) Maximum Entropy Classifiers (MaxEnt) Maximum Entropy Markov Models (MEMM) 8
9. Conditional Random Fields Let x= x1, x2, …, xnbe a sequence of observations, such as a sequence of words, paragraphs, or, as in our setting, a sequence of HTML “segments”. Given a set of possible output values (i.e., labels), sequence CRFs define the conditional probability of a label sequence y = y1, y2, …, ynas: Zxis a normalization term overall possible label sequences. Current position is i. Current and previous labels are yiand yi-1 Often, the range of feature functions fkis {0,1}. Associated with each feature function, fk, is a learned parameter λkthat captures the strength and polarity of the correlation between the label transition, yi-1to yi. 9
10. Conditional Random Fields Training D ={(y(1), x(1)), (y(2), x(2)), …,(y(m), x(m))}. A set of training data consisting of a set of pairs ofsequences. The model parameters are learned by maximizing the conditional log-likelihood of the training data. which is simply the sum of the log-probabilities assigned by the model to each label-observation sequence pair: The second term in the above equation is a Gaussian prior over the parameters, which helps the model to overcome over-fitting. 10 Regularization term
11. Conditional Random Fields Decoding (Testing) Given a trained model, the problem of decoding in sequence CRFs involves finding the most likely label sequence for a given observation sequence. There are NMpossible label sequences. N is the number of labels. M is the length of the sequence. Dynamic programming, specifically a variation on the Viterbi algorithm, can find the optimal sequence in time linear in the length of the sequence and quadratic in the number of possible labels. 11
12. Maximum Entropy Classifier MaxEnt classifiers are conditional models that given a set of parameters produce a conditional multinomial distribution according to: In contrast with CRFs, MaxEnt models (and classifiers generally) are “state-less” and do not model any dependence between different positions in the sequence. 12
13. Maximum Entropy Markov Models MEMMs model a state sequence just as CRFs do, but use a “local” training method rather than performing global inference over the sequence at each training iteration. Viterbi decoding is employed as with CRFs to find the best label sequence. MEMMs are prone to various biases that can reduce their accuracy. Do not normalize over the entire sequence like CRFs. 13
14. Data Harvesting and Annotation 1620 labeled documents from 27 of the sites. 388 distinctarticles within the 1620 documents. This large number ofduplicate and near duplicate documents introduced bias into ourtraining set. 14
15. Data Dividing into Blocks Sanitize the raw HTML and transform it intoXHTML. Exclude all words insidestyle and script tags. Tokenize the document. Divide up theentire sequence of <lex> into smaller sequences called blocks. except the following:<a>,<span>, <strong>, ...etc. Wrap each block as tightly as possible with a <span>. Create features based on the material from the <span> tags in each block. There is a large skew of NotContent vs. Content blocks. 234,436 NotContentblocks. 24,388 Content blocks. 15
17. Experimental Setup Data Set Creation The authors ran four separate cross validation experiments to measure the bias introduced by duplicate articles and mixed sources. Duplicates, Mixed Sources. Split documents with 75% in the training set and 25% in the testing set. No Duplicates, Mixed Sources. This split prevented duplicate documents from spanning the training and testing boundary. Duplicates Allowed, Separate Sources. Create four separate bundles each containing 6 or 7 sources. Fill the bundles in round-robin fashion by selecting a source at random. Three bundles were assigned to training and one to testing. No Duplicates, Separate Sources. Ensure that no duplicates crossed the training/test set boundary. 17
18. Results and Analysis Each of the threedifferent models, CRF, MEMM and MaxEnt are evaluated oneach of the four different data setups. All results are a weightedaverage of four-fold cross validation. 18
19. Results and Analysis Feature Type Analysis Shows results for the CRF when individually removing each class of feature using the “No Duplicates; Separate Sources” data set. 19
21. Results and Analysis Amount of Training Data Show the results for the CRF with varying quantities of training data using the “No Duplicates; Separate Sources” experimentalsetup. 21
22. Results and Analysis Error Analysis NotContent blocks found interspersed within portions of Content being falsely labeled as Content. Sometimes section headers would be incorrectly singled out as NotContent. The beginning and end of article boundaries where sometimes the first or last block would incorrectly be labeled NotContent. 22
23. Conclusion and Feature Work Sequence labeling emerged as the clear winner with CRF edging out MEMM. MaxEnt was only competitive on the easiest of the four data sets and is not a viable alternative to site-specific wrappers. Future work includes applying the techniques to additional data, including additional sources, different languages, and other types of data such as weblogs. Another interesting avenue: semi-Markov CRFs. 23