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Data intensive information is often published on the internet in the format of HTML tables. Extracting some of the information that is of users’ interest from the internet, especially when large number of web pages need to be accessed, is time consuming. To automate the processes of information extraction, this paper proposes an XML way of semantically analyzing HTML tables for the data od interest. It firstly introduces a mini language in XML syntax for specifying ontologies that represent the data of interest. Then it defines algorithms that parse HTML tables to a specially defined type of XML trees. The XML trees are then compared with the ontologies to semantically analyze and locate the part of table or nested tables that have the interesting data. Finally, interesting data, once identified, is output as XML documents.
This research was supported by the international join research grant of the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment) foreign professor invitation program of the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea.
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Liu, J., Ao, Z., Park, HH., Chen, Y. (2005). An XML Approach to Semantically Extract Data from HTML Tables. In: Andersen, K.V., Debenham, J., Wagner, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11546924_68
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