The XPath query language offers a standard for information extraction from HTML documents. Therefore, the DOM tree representation is typically used, which models the hierarchical structure of the document. One of the key aspects of HTML is the separation of data and the structure that is used to represent it. A consequence thereof is that data extraction algorithms usually fail to identify data...

Search-based optimization methods have been used for software engineering activities such as software testing. In the field of software testing, search-based test data generation refers to application of meta-heuristic optimization methods to generate test data that cover the code space of a program. Automatic test data generation that can cover all the paths of software is known as a major cha...

Many generative models attempt to replicate the density of their input data. However, this approach is often undesirable, since data density is highly affected by sampling biases, noise, and artifacts. We propose a method called SUGAR (Synthesis Using Geometrically Aligned Random-walks) that uses a diffusion process to learn a manifold geometry from the data. Then, it generates new points evenl...

We present the first extension of the DataOriented Parsing paradigm (Bod 1998a) to Natural Language Generation: Unmediated Data-Oriented Generation, or UDOG. It is “unmediated” because instead of using a logic-like amodal representation of meaning as a basis for semantics (Van den Berg et al 1994), it exploits direct connections between exemplars in linguistic and nonlinguistic (in this case vi...