Automatic web information extraction in the ROADRUNNER system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2465, Issue , 2002, Pages 264-277

  Crescenzi, Valter ^a   Mecca, Giansalvatore ^b   Merialdo, Paolo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b DIFA Universit della Basilicata   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HTML; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SEMANTICS;

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DATA INTENSIVE WEB SITES; DATA-SOURCES; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; WEB INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 77949271705     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46140-x_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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