Learning to adapt web information extraction knowledge and discovering new attributes via a bayesian approach

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 523-536

  Wong, Tak Lam ^a   Lam, Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Text mining; Web mining; Wrapper adaptation

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BAYESIAN LEARNING FRAMEWORK; CONTENT INFORMATION; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXTRACTION PATTERNS; GENERATIVE MODEL; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION WRAPPERS; MACHINE-LEARNING; REAL-WORLD WEB SITES; SEMANTIC LABELS; TEXT FRAGMENTS; TRAINING DATA; WEB INFORMATION EXTRACTION; WEB MINING; WEB PAGE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 77649265164     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.111     Document Type: Article

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