<s>
Lapis	B-Application
is	O
an	O
experimental	O
web	B-Application
browser	I-Application
and	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
allowing	O
simultaneous	B-Application
editing	I-Application
of	O
text	O
in	O
multiple	B-General_Concept
selections	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lapis	B-Application
is	O
able	O
to	O
infer	O
the	O
list	O
of	O
selected	O
elements	O
automatically	O
from	O
positive	O
and	O
negative	O
examples	O
given	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
,	O
during	O
a	O
process	O
known	O
as	O
selection	O
guessing	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
concept	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
ability	O
occurs	O
via	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
an	O
instance	O
of	O
,	O
programming	B-Application
by	I-Application
example	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
multiple	O
items	O
to	O
edit	O
are	O
selected	O
automatically	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
example	O
provided	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
,	O
making	O
this	O
experimental	O
feature	O
unique	O
to	O
Lapis	B-Application
among	O
text	B-Application
editors	I-Application
,	O
though	O
similar	O
features	O
exist	O
in	O
some	O
web	B-Application
scrapers	I-Application
and	O
data	B-General_Concept
munging	I-General_Concept
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
create	O
the	O
selection	O
,	O
Lapis	B-Application
first	O
determines	O
the	O
more	O
salient	O
properties	O
of	O
the	O
items	O
selected	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
in	O
a	O
process	O
called	O
feature	O
generation	O
,	O
detects	O
common	O
features	O
of	O
the	O
user-selected	O
items	O
,	O
groups	O
these	O
features	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
hypotheses	O
for	O
the	O
concept	O
that	O
defines	O
the	O
selection	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
applies	O
the	O
generalized	O
concept	O
to	O
the	O
whole	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lapis	B-Application
also	O
features	O
outlier	O
detection	O
,	O
marking	O
in	O
red	O
those	O
items	O
selected	O
that	O
have	O
a	O
low	O
matching	O
score	O
,	O
thus	O
allowing	O
users	O
to	O
review	O
the	O
automatic	O
decisions	O
made	O
by	O
the	O
algorithm	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lapis	B-Application
includes	O
a	O
template	O
vocabulary	O
to	O
assist	O
editing	O
several	O
kinds	O
of	O
structured	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lapis	B-Application
includes	O
a	O
Web	B-Application
browser	I-Application
view	O
that	O
allows	O
its	O
multiple	O
edit	O
feature	O
to	O
work	O
on	O
web	O
pages	O
in	O
a	O
WYSIWYG	B-Application
way	O
,	O
through	O
automatic	O
matching	O
of	O
the	O
underlying	O
HTML	O
tags	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
is	O
programmed	O
in	O
various	O
languages	O
,	O
mainly	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
and	O
released	O
under	O
version	O
2	O
of	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
(	O
GPLv2	B-License
)	O
,	O
with	O
various	O
dependencies	O
provided	O
under	O
other	O
licenses	O
.	O
</s>
