From HTML documents to web tables and rules

We present a browser-extending Semantic Web extraction system that maps HTML documents to tables and, where possible, to rules. First, the basic data extractor ViPER distills and reorganizes semi-structured information into a tabular data structure, which can again be browsed and/or submitted to further machine processing. Second, exemplifying the latter, the extended knowledge extractor Rex ViPER mines the resulting tables for structural properties and functional dependencies. Rules are generated to obtain a more compact and manageable, often also enriched, knowledge representation. The resulting fully structured information, RuleML-serialized facts and rules, can be stored along with the orginal documents, queried by rule engines such as OO jDREW and FLORID, and interchanged between Web Services. Thus Rex ViPER contributes to automating the construction of a machine-processable Semantic Web. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.m [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Miscellaneousâ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACMICEC
• Authors: Kai Simon, Georg Lausen, Harold Boley
• Keywords: ACMICEC 2006, Data Extractor Viper, ECommerce, Rex ViPER, Semantic Web Extraction