Web data extraction, applications and techniques: A survey

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 301-323

  Ferrara, Emilio ^a   De Meo, Pasquale ^b   Fiumara, Giacomo ^b   Baumgartner, Robert ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c Lixto Software GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Information retrieval; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge based systems; Web data mining; Web information extraction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; CROSS FERTILIZATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; WEB DATA EXTRACTION; WEB DATA MINING; WEB INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84908485191     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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