Towards ontology extraction from data-intensive web sites: An HTML forms-based reverse engineering approach

International Arab Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-44

  Benslimane, Sidi ^a   Malki, Mimoun ^a   Rahmouni, Mustapha ^b   Rahmoun, Adellatif ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIDI BEL ABBES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^c KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Applications and expert systems; Dataintensive web; Information search and retrieval; Online information services; Reverse engineering; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349122277     PISSN: 16833198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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