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Autores principales: Akbiyik, Eren, Almeida, João, Melis, Rik, Sriram, Ritu, Petrescu, Viviana, Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16644
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author Akbiyik, Eren
Almeida, João
Melis, Rik
Sriram, Ritu
Petrescu, Viviana
Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur
author_facet Akbiyik, Eren
Almeida, João
Melis, Rik
Sriram, Ritu
Petrescu, Viviana
Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur
contents Modern text processing pipelines demand robust methods to remove extraneous content while preserving a document's core message. Traditional approaches such as HTML boilerplate extraction or keyword filters often fail in multilingual settings and struggle with context-sensitive nuances, whereas Large Language Models (LLMs) offer improved quality at high computational cost. We introduce SORE (Semantic Outlier Removal), a cost-effective, transparent method that leverages multilingual sentence embeddings and approximate nearest-neighbor search to identify and excise unwanted text segments. By first identifying core content via metadata embedding and then flagging segments that either closely match predefined outlier groups or deviate significantly from the core, SORE achieves near-LLM extraction precision at a fraction of the cost. Experiments on HTML datasets demonstrate that SORE outperforms structural methods and yield high precision in diverse scenarios. Our system is currently deployed in production, processing millions of documents daily across multiple languages while maintaining both efficiency and accuracy. To facilitate reproducibility and further research, we release our implementation and evaluation datasets.
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spellingShingle Semantic Outlier Removal with Embedding Models and LLMs
Akbiyik, Eren
Almeida, João
Melis, Rik
Sriram, Ritu
Petrescu, Viviana
Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Modern text processing pipelines demand robust methods to remove extraneous content while preserving a document's core message. Traditional approaches such as HTML boilerplate extraction or keyword filters often fail in multilingual settings and struggle with context-sensitive nuances, whereas Large Language Models (LLMs) offer improved quality at high computational cost. We introduce SORE (Semantic Outlier Removal), a cost-effective, transparent method that leverages multilingual sentence embeddings and approximate nearest-neighbor search to identify and excise unwanted text segments. By first identifying core content via metadata embedding and then flagging segments that either closely match predefined outlier groups or deviate significantly from the core, SORE achieves near-LLM extraction precision at a fraction of the cost. Experiments on HTML datasets demonstrate that SORE outperforms structural methods and yield high precision in diverse scenarios. Our system is currently deployed in production, processing millions of documents daily across multiple languages while maintaining both efficiency and accuracy. To facilitate reproducibility and further research, we release our implementation and evaluation datasets.
title Semantic Outlier Removal with Embedding Models and LLMs
topic Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16644