@inproceedings{san-etal-2023-plate,
    title = "{PLA}t{E}: A Large-scale Dataset for List Page Web Extraction",
    author = "San, Aidan  and
      Zhuang, Yuan  and
      Bakus, Jan  and
      Lockard, Colin  and
      Ciemiewicz, David  and
      Atluri, Sandeep  and
      Small, Kevin  and
      Ji, Yangfeng  and
      Elfardy, Heba",
    editor = "Sitaram, Sunayana  and
      Beigman Klebanov, Beata  and
      Williams, Jason D",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-industry.27",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-industry.27",
    pages = "284--294",
    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.",
}

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.
San, Aidan Zhuang, Yuan Bakus, Jan Lockard, Colin Ciemiewicz, David Atluri, S eep Small, Kevin Ji, Yangfeng Elfardy, Heba
PLAtE: A Large-scale Dataset for List Page Web Extraction