Sources of success for boosted wrapper induction

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 499-527

  Kauchak, David ^a   Smarr, Joseph ^b   Elkan, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted wrapper induction; Boosting; Information extraction

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTICS;

ATTRIBUTE-VALUE INFORMATION; BOOSTING; GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; POSITIVE EXAMPLES; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; WRAPPER INDUCTION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 22944468565     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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