AutoFeed: An unsupervised learning system for generating webfeeds

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-10

  Gazen, Bora ^a   Minton, Steven ^a  

^a Fetch Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous experts; Unsupervised wrapper induction; Web site modelling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING APPROACH; EXTRACTION RULE; GENERATION PROCESS; GENERIC STRUCTURE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SITE-SPECIFIC; WEB DATA; WRAPPER INDUCTION;

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750717352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1088622.1088625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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