Osama M. Mustafa

O-Funnel: Lossless Structural Capture and Requirement-Driven Extraction from Drifting, Heterogeneous Documents

Pulling a fixed set of fields out of documents that arrive in many formats and under drifting schemas is usually done with hand-written byte patterns, which break whenever a key is renamed, a value is reformatted, or a lookalike value appears first. We argue the cause is structural: one pattern must both describe the v...