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New SCRIBES framework extracts web data using reusable scripts

Researchers have developed SCRIBES, a reinforcement learning framework designed to extract structured information from semi-structured web content like HTML tables and lists. This method generates reusable extraction scripts by leveraging layout similarity across webpages within the same site as a reward signal, thus avoiding resource-intensive per-page LLM inference. The framework improves by training on synthetic annotations from CommonCrawl data, outperforming existing methods in script quality and enhancing downstream question answering accuracy for models like GPT-4o. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient and scalable extraction of structured data from the web, potentially improving downstream AI applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel framework for data extraction. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New SCRIBES framework extracts web data using reusable scripts

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Shicheng Liu, Kai Sun, Lisheng Fu, Xilun Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhaojiang Lin, Rulin Shao, Yue Liu, Anuj Kumar, Wen-tau Yih, Xin Luna Dong ·

    SCRIBES: Web-Scale Script-Based Semi-Structured Data Extraction with Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2510.01832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semi-structured content in HTML tables, lists, and infoboxes accounts for a substantial share of factual data on the web, yet the formatting complicates usage, and reliably extracting structured information from them remains cha…