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Inscriptis -- A Python-based HTML to text conversion library optimized for knowledge extraction from the Web
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2021.
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Abstract
- Inscriptis provides a library, command line client and Web service for converting HTML to plain text. Its development has been triggered by the need to obtain accurate text representations for knowledge extraction tasks that preserve the spatial alignment of text without drawing upon heavyweight, browser-based solutions such as Selenium. In contrast to related software packages, Inscriptis (i) provides a layout-aware conversion of HTML that more closely resembles the rendering obtained from standard Web browsers; and (ii) supports annotation rules, i.e., user-provided mappings that allow for annotating the extracted text based on structural and semantic information encoded in HTML tags and attributes. These unique features ensure that downstream knowledge extraction components can operate on accurate text representations, and may even use information on the semantics and structure of the original HTML document.<br />Comment: Preprint of the published version, which includes all improvements made during the review process
- Subjects :
- FOS: Computer and information sciences
Information retrieval
Plain text
Computer science
computer.file_format
Python (programming language)
computer.software_genre
Semantics
HTML element
Computer Science - Information Retrieval
H.4.3
Annotation
Knowledge extraction
Automotive Engineering
ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING
H.3.1
Web service
computer
HTML attribute
Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d691b5d9d7c0080fe838064fd1c8a0f7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.01454