A substantial subset of the web data follows some kind of underlying structure. In order to let software programs gain full benefit from these “semistructured” web sources, wra...
Abstract: Information integration applications combine data from heterogeneous sources to assist the user in solving repetitive data-intensive tasks. Currently, such applications r...
Jim Blythe, Dipsy Kapoor, Craig A. Knoblock, Krist...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Wrappers play an important role in extracting specified information from various sources. Wrapper rules by which information is extracted are often created from the domain-specifi...
Although Web search engines have become information gateways to the Internet, for queries containing technical terms, search results often contain pages that are difficult to be ...