Structured databases on the web: Observations and implications

SIGMOD Record

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 61-70

  Chang, Kevin Chen Chuan ^a   He, Bin ^a   Li, Chengkai ^a   Patel, Mitesh ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; HTML; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; LSI CIRCUITS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION INTEGRATION; INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP); VISUAL-LANGUAGE PARSING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 5444262639     PISSN: 01635808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1031570.1031584     Document Type: Review

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