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Flexible Web Document Analysis for Delivery to Narrow-Bandwidth Devices Gerald Penn1^ Jianying Hu 1 Hengbin Luo1 Ryan McDonald2 gpenn @ j ianhu @ hengbinluo @ hotmail r.mcdonald @ Lucent Bell Labs 1 University of Toronto 1 Avaya Laboratories Language Modeling Research Dept, of Computer Science Multimedia Technologies Research600 Mountain Ave. 10 Kings College Rd. 211 Mt. Airy Road Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Toronto M5S 3G4, Canada Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, USA Abstract We propose a set of baseline heuristics for identifying genuinely tabular information and news links in HTML documents. A prototype implementation of these heuristics is described for delivering content from news providers9 home pages to a narrow-handwidth device such as a portable digital assistant or cellular phone display. Its evaluation on 75 web-sites is provided, along with a discussion of topics for future research. Motivation Delivery of content from the World Wide Web to devices other than computers with standard-sized displays is typically achieved through the use of a portal. The portal* s function is to collect and prepare the content for delivery to the particular device with a great deal of attention to one of its particular modes of presentation. Ultimately, the range and potential sources of content are restricted by the portal to make this provision feasible. The present research programme was motivated by speculation that recent advances in computational linguistics and document analysis could be used to replace portals, ul? timately a filter to enforce syntactic restrictions on content, with more functional restrictions gleaned from the topic or domain to which the content pertains- Given that semantic restriction, linguistic and document-based analysis of semi- structured text can, in principle, be used to automatically provide the most relevant content at the right level of detail to a user and in the right format for the mode of delivery. This is very much in keeping