Re-forming the internet with its end users
Michael Toomim · 2009
Today, tools like Greasemonkey and Chickenfoot already provide the raw technology for modifying a Website in the end user's Web browser instead of the Webmaster's Web server by injecting it with a special browser-side script. The problem, however, is that it takes a programmer to enhance a Website with such a script. The paper presents reform, an interactive machine learning technique designed for novice end users, allowing them to scrape a variety of data layouts by example, without seeing the underlying Webpage representation.