Information Extraction from Web Documents Based on Local Unranked Tree Automaton Inference

Information extraction (IE) aims at extracting specific information from a collection of documents. A lot of previous work on 10 from semi-structured documents (in XML or HTML) uses learning techniques based on strings. Some recent work converts the document to a ranked tree and uses tree automaton induction. This paper introduces an algorithm that uses unranked trees to induce an automaton. Experiments show that this gives the best results obtained so far for IE from semi-structured documents based on learning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IJCAI
• Authors: Raymond Kosala, Maurice Bruynooghe, Jan Van den Bussche, Hendrik Blockeel
• Keywords: IJCAI 2003, IJCAI 2007, Ranked Tree, Semi-structured Documents, Tree Automaton Induction