Building intelligent Web applications using lightweight wrappers

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 283-316

  Sahuguet, Arnaud ^a,c   Azavant, Fabien ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^c Institut National de la Statistique et des etudes economiques   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Technology Officer of Tropea Inc

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HTML; PROBLEM SOLVING; WEB BROWSERS;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHODS; INFORMATION REPOSITORIES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0343725648     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(00)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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