Web data extraction for Business Intelligence: The lixto approach

BTW 2005 - Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web, 11th Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs "Datenbanken und Informationssysteme" (DBIS)

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 48-65

  Baumgartner, Robert ^a   Frölich, Oliver ^a   Gottlob, Georg ^a   Harz, Patrick ^a   Herzog, Marcus ^a   Lehmann, Peter ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b STUTTGART MEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; ONLINE SHOPS; PUBLIC DOMAIN INFORMATION; PUBLIC INFORMATION; SEMI-STRUCTURED INFORMATION; STRUCTURED DATA; WEB DATA EXTRACTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COMMERCE;

EID: 34548066322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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