Automatically recognizing which HTML documents on the Web contain objects that are “of interest” for a user is non-trivial. As a step toward solving this problem for information filtering in which a user expresses a long-term need for information with a specific profile, we propose an approach based on ontological descriptions. The HTML documents we consider include semistructured HTML document...

We describe a physical and logical layout analysis algorithm, which is applied to segment and label online medical journal articles (regular HTML and PDF-Converted-HTML files). For these articles, the geometric layout of the Web page is the most important cue for physical layout analysis. The key to physical layout analysis is then to render the HTML file in a Web browser, so that the visual in...

Functional programming fits well with the use of descriptive markup in HTML and XML. There is also a good fit between S-expressions in Lisp and the means of expression in HTML and XML. These similarities are exploited in LAML (Lisp Abstracted Markup Language) which is a software package for Scheme. LAML supports exact mirrors of different versions of HTML. In the mirrors each HTML element is re...

Tables in HTML Web pages have become precious knowledge sources. Therefore it is reasonable and necessary to develop an algorithm to extract knowledge from them. For this, we need a system to identify the boundary between attributes and values of a table in HTML and transform tables into more understandable attributevalue pairs. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for this purpose. The outli...

This paper describes a framework for applying templates to applications and documents on the Web. The primary motivation is the need of Web application developers to separate program logic from presentation logic. A template is a prototypical document or part thereof. It consists of content in the target language, HTML, XML, or plain text, plus markup specifying variable parts of the document. ...

Web page classification differs from traditional text classification due to additional information by Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) structure and the presence of hyperlinks. While effort was taken to exploit hyperlinks for classification, web pages structured nature is rarely considered. A noticeable HTML documents feature is HTML tags and respective attributes that ensure that HTML documen...

An incorrect citation appeared in the fi nal paragraph of the Introduction. The corrected sentence, along with full biblio-graphic information for the correct citation, appears below. We report that Did2, a protein related to ESCRT-III subunits (Amerik et al., 2000), directs Vps4 activity to the dissociation of ESCRT-III. Note that the html and pdf versions of this article have been corrected. ...

We define a family of embedded domain specific languages for generating HTML and XML documents. Each language is implemented as a combinator library in Haskell. The generated HTML/XML documents are guaranteed to be well-formed. In addition, each library can guarantee that the generated documents are valid XML documents to a certain extent (for HTML only a weaker guarantee is possible). On top o...

Both LATEX and HTML are languages that can express the structure of a document, and similarities between these two systems are shown. A detailed study is made of the LaTeX2HTML program, written by Nikos Drakos, that is today the most complete utility for translating LATEX code into HTML, providing a quasi-automatic translation for most elements. A discussion of a few other tools for translating...