Visual Segmentation-Based Data Record Extraction From Web Documents

M. Weatherston; A. Obregon; Longzhuang Li; Yonghuai Liu

doi:10.1109/IRI.2007.4296670

Visual Segmentation-Based Data Record Extraction From Web Documents

M. Weatherston, A. Obregon, Longzhuang Li, Yonghuai Liu

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Semi-structured data records contained in the Web pages provide useful information for shopping agents and metasearch engines. In this paper, we present a visual segmentation-based data record extraction (VSDR) method to extract data records from those Web pages. VSDR method first segments a Web page into semantic blocks using the spatial closeness and visual resemblance of data records, then neighboring and non-neighboring data records are extracted based on a compress and collapse technique. Experimental results slum that unlike the existing methods which only generate good results on their test domains, VSDR is a general data record extraction method that is able to produce quite stable and good results on a wide range of Web pages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Information Reuse and Itegration
Pages	502-507
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	1-4244-1500-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2007.4296670
Publication status	Published - 13 Aug 2007
Event	International Conference on Information Reuse and Itegration - Las Vegas, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Duration: 13 Aug 2007 → 15 Aug 2007

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Conference	International Conference on Information Reuse and Itegration
Country/Territory	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
City	Las Vegas
Period	13 Aug 2007 → 15 Aug 2007

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Weatherston, M, Obregon, A, Li, L & Liu, Y 2007, Visual Segmentation-Based Data Record Extraction From Web Documents. in International Conference on Information Reuse and Itegration. pp. 502-507, International Conference on Information Reuse and Itegration, Las Vegas, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 13 Aug 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2007.4296670

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