Schema-guided wrapper maintenance for web-data extraction

Proceedings of the Interntational Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-8

  Meng, Xiaofeng ^a   Hu, Dongdong ^a   Li, Chen ^b  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraction; Maintenance; Schema; Web; Wrapper

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXTRACTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HTML; MAINTENANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

HYPERLINKS; SCHEMA; SEMANTIC BLOCKS; WRAPPER MAINTENANCE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 18744413271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956700.956701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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