Extracting information from web documents has become a research area in which new
proposals sprout out year after year. This has motivated several researchers to work on …

Web data extractors are used to extract data from web documents in order to feed automated
processes. In this article, we propose a technique that works on two or more web documents …

This paper presents a novel approach to web page segmentation, which is one of
substantial preprocessing steps when mining data from web documents. Most of the current …

The goal of this work is extraction and retrieval of local events from web pages. Examples of
local events include small venue concerts, theater performances, garage sales, movie …

Traditional parse trees are combined together and enriched with anaphora and rhetoric
information to form a unified representation for a paragraph of text. We refer to these …

Class descriptors such as attributes, features or meronyms are rarely considered when
developing ontologies. Even WordNet only includes a reduced amount of part-of …

The World Wide Web is an immense information resource. Web information extraction is the
task that transforms human friendly Web information into structured information that can be …

In information retrieval, data fusion (also known as meta-search) has been investigated by
many researchers. Previous investigation and experimentation demonstrate that the linear …

A Web database typically responds to a query with a Web page, which encodes the query
results into semi-structured data objects using HTML tags. We call such data objects Web …

As web contents grow, the importance of search engines become more critical and at the
same time user satisfaction decreases. Query recommendation is a new approach to …