The content of the world-wide web is pervaded by information of a geographical or spatial nature, particularly such location information as addresses, postal codes, and telephone ...
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Masaki Aono, Michael E. Houle, ...
The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
Extracting and processing information from web pages is an important task in many areas like constructing search engines, information retrieval, and data mining from the Web. Comm...
Milos Kovacevic, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Gor...
This paper describes a programming-by-demonstration system, called Internet Scrapbook, which allows users with little programming skill to automate repetitive browsing tasks. With...
The paper investigates techniques for extracting data from HTML sites through the use of automatically generated wrappers. To automate the wrapper generation and the data extracti...
Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Meria...