Table extraction using spatial reasoning on the CSS2 visual box model

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1313-1318

  Gatterbauer, Wolfgang ^a   Bohunsky, Paul ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HTML; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION; CODE IMPLEMENTATION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; TABLE EXTRACTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33750711030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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