Identifying and expanding titles in web texts

In this paper, we present an analysis based on linguistic and typographic features that allows for the identification of titles in web documents. We focus in particular on procedural texts. Identifying titles is a difficult task because ways of encoding them are very diverse. A number of titles are also incomplete because of context, we propose therefore a way to retrieve the missing elements, in particular predicates, so that titles are fully intelligible. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous General Terms Human factors, Experimentation Keywords structure analysis, text semantics, text titles

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: DOCENG
• Authors: Clémentine Adam, Estelle Delpech, Patrick Saint-Dizier
• Keywords: DOCENG 2008, Document Analysis, Keywords Structure Analysis, Miscellaneous General Terms, Procedural Texts