Using the structure of web sites for automatic segmentation of tables

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-130

  Lerman, Kristina ^a   Getoor, Lise ^b   Minton, Steven ^c   Knoblock, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Fetch Technologies Inc   (United States)

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EID: 3142742483     PISSN: 07308078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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