Automatic Discovery of Semantic Structures in HTML Documents

Template-driven HTML documents posses an implicit, fixed schema denoting concepts and their relationships in a hierarchical fashion. Discovering this schema remains a relatively unexplored problem. By exploiting a key observation that semantically related items in HTML documents exhibit spatial locality, we develop an algorithm for automatically partitioning them into tree-like semantic structures which expose the implicit schema.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: Saikat Mukherjee, Guizhen Yang, Wenfang Tan, I. V. Ramakrishnan
• Keywords: Document Analysis, HTML Documents, ICDAR 2003, Schema Denoting Concepts, Template-driven HTML Documents