Webpage information extraction (WIE) is an important step to create knowledge bases. For this, classical WIE methods leverage the Document Object Model (DOM) tree of a website. However, use of the DOM tree poses significant challenges as context and appearance are encoded in an abstract manner. To address this challenge we propose to reformulate WIE as a context-aware Webpage Object Detection task. Specifically, we develop a Context-aware Visual Attention-based (CoVA) detection pipeline which combines appearance features with syntactical structure from the DOM tree. To study the approach we collect a new large-scale datase of e-commerce websites for which we manually annotate every web element with four labels: product price, product title, product image and others. On this dataset we show that the proposed CoVA approach is a new challenging baseline which improves upon prior state-of-the-art methods.

CoVA: Context-aware Visual Attention for Webpage Information Extraction

**Organizers:** :Shervin Malmasi, Eugene Agichtein, Surya Kallumadi, Nicola Ueffing, Oleg Rokhlenko, Ido
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 **Description:** NLP and IR have been closely linked to e-commerce applications since the early days of the fields. This close relationship
between the two is evidenced by early publications as well as the growing number of recent publications at the intersection
of the two areas. Today, NLP and IR play a significant role in e-commerce tasks, including product search, recommender
systems, product question answering, sentiment analysis, product description and review summarization, chatbots and
shopping assistants, and customer review processing, among many other tasks being investigated by researchers in the
field. These methods play a key part in today’s online retail and shopping landscape, and continue to evolve and further
enhance the customer experience. The ECNLP workshop aims to provide a venue for the dissemination of NLP/IR
research related to e-commerce and online shopping, bringing together researchers from both academia and industry.
 
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CoVA: Context-aware Visual Attention for Webpage Information Extraction