Web wrapper induction: A brief survey

AI Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 57-61

  Flesca, Sergio ^a   Manco, Giuseppe ^b   Masciari, Elio ^b   Rende, Eugenio ^a   Tagarelli, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ICAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Wrapper generation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HTML; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION (IE); LINGUISTICS CONSTRAINTS; ONTOLOGIES; WRAPPER GENERATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3142764439     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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