Semi-Automated extraction of targeted data fromweb pages

Fabrice Estíevenart; Jean Roch Meurisse; Jean Luc Hainaut; Philippe Thiran

doi:10.1109/ICDEW.2006.135

Semi-Automated extraction of targeted data fromweb pages

Fabrice Estíevenart, Jean Roch Meurisse, Jean Luc Hainaut, Philippe Thiran

University of Namur

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TheWorldWideWeb can be considered an infinite source of information for both individuals and organizations. Yet, if the main standard of publication on the Web (HTML) is quite suited to human reading, its poor semantics makes it difficult for computers to process and use embedded data in a smart and automated way. In this paper, we propose to build a bridge between HTML documents and external applications by means of socalled mapping rules. Such rules mainly record a semantic interpretation of recurring types of information in a cluster of similar Web documents and their location in those documents. Relying on these rules, HTML-embedded data can be extracted towards a more computable format. The definition of mapping rules is based on direct user input mainly for the interpretation part, and on automatic computing for the location of data in HTML tree structures. This approach is supported by a user-friendly tool called Retrozilla.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICDEW 2006 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	0769525717, 9780769525716
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2006.135
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2006
Event	22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2006 - Atlanta, United States Duration: 3 Apr 2006 → 7 Apr 2006

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Conference	22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	3/04/06 → 7/04/06

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Estíevenart, F, Meurisse, JR, Hainaut, JL & Thiran, P 2006, Semi-Automated extraction of targeted data fromweb pages. in ICDEW 2006 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops., 1623843, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2006, Atlanta, United States, 3/04/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2006.135

Semi-Automated extraction of targeted data fromweb pages. / Estíevenart, Fabrice; Meurisse, Jean Roch; Hainaut, Jean Luc et al.
ICDEW 2006 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006. 1623843.

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