Extracting data records from the Web using tag path clustering

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 981-990

  Miao, Gengxin ^a   Tatemura, Junichi ^b   Hsiung, Wang Pin ^b   Sawires, Arsany ^b   Moser, Louise E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data record extraction; Information extraction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; CLUSTERING; DATA RECORDS; DOM TREE; HOLISTIC ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; OBJECT EXTRACTION; OCCURRENCE PATTERN; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PATH CLUSTERING; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL SIGNALS; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB PAGE STRUCTURE;

WEBSITES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84865659127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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