Learning page-independent heuristics for extracting data from Web pages

Computer Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1641-1652

  Cohen, William W ^a   Fan, Wei ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; HTML; LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

WEB PAGES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033295307     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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