Learning object models from semistructured web documents

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 334-349

  Ye, Shiren ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ACM SIGIR 2008   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computational geometry and object modeling; DOM; Intelligent web services and Semantic Web; Knowledge acquisition; Machine learning; Ontology design; Web mining; Web text analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AND OBJECT MODELING; DOM; INTELLIGENT WEB SERVICES AND SEMANTIC WEB; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; WEB MINING; WEB TEXT ANALYSIS;

CAMERAS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; WEBSITES; XML;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 31644439436     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2006.47     Document Type: Article

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