A probabilistic approach for adapting information extraction wrappers and discovering new attributes

Proceedings - Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 257-264

  Wong, Tak Lam ^a   Lam, Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADAPTATION; ATTRIBUTES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION WRAPPERS; REAL-WORLD WEB SITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 19544378318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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