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Extracting semi-structured data through examples

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Berthier Ribeiro-Neto,

Alberto H. F. Laender,

Altigran S. da SilvaAuthors Info & Claims

CIKM '99: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management

Pages 94 - 101

https://doi.org/10.1145/319950.319962

Published: 01 November 1999 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to extracting semi-structured data from Web sources. The idea is to collect a couple of example objects from the user and to use this information to extract new objects from new pages or texts. To perform the extraction of new objects, we introduce a bottom-up extration strategy and, through experimentation, demonstrate that it works quite effectively with distinct Web sources, even if only a few examples are provided by the user.

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Index Terms

Extracting semi-structured data through examples
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services

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