Extracting Web data using instance-based learning

World Wide Web

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-132

  Zhai, Yanhong ^a   Liu, Bing ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Instance based learning; Web content mining; Web data extraction

Indexed keywords

WEB CONTENT MINING; WEB DATA EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 34247869740     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11280-007-0022-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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