Information extraction from HTML pages has been conventionally treated as plain text documents extended with HTML tags. However, the growing maturity and correct usage of HTML/XHTML formats open an opportunity to treat Web pages as trees, to mine the rich structural context in the trees and to learn accurate extraction rules. In this paper, we generalize the notion of delimiter developed for th...

This paper is concerned with the problem of structured data extraction from Web pages. The objective of the research is to automatically segment data records in a page, extract data items/fields from these records and store the extracted data in a database. In this paper, we first introduce the extraction problem, and then discuss the main existing approaches and their limitations. After that, ...

The INSPIRE Directive establishes a pan-European ”Spatial Data Infrastructure” (SDI) to make available multiple thematic datasets from the EU member states through stable Geo Web-Services. Parallel to this ongoing procedure, the Semantic Web has technologically fostered the Linked Data initiative which builds up huge repositories of freely collected data for public access. Querying both data ca...

SUMMARY The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) framework and web services are emerging as useful tools for integrating biomedical text mining tools. This note describes our work, which wraps the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) Annotator-an ontology-based annotation service-to make it available as a component in UIMA workflows. AVAILABILITY This wrapper is f...

One of the main drawbacks of the Semantic Web is the lack of semantically rich data, since most of the information is still stored in relational databases. We present RDQuery, a wrapper system which enables Semantic Web applications to access and query data actually stored in relational databases using their own built-in functionality. RDQuery automatically translates SPARQL and RDQL queries in...

Wrapper is a traditional method to extract useful information from Web pages. Most previous works rely on the similarity between HTML tag trees and induced template-dependent wrappers. When hundreds of information sources need to be extracted in a specific domain like news, it is costly to generate and maintain the wrappers. In this paper, we propose a novel templateindependent news extraction ...

Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) services is a content integration middleware that provides one-query access to the Intranet and Internet content resources. The ECI Adapter technology offers an interface to any application for data and metadata extraction from unstructured Web pages. It offers a unique framework of wrapper production, automatic recovery and maintenance, developed...

A critical problem in developing information agents for the Web is accessing data that is formatted for human use. We have developed a set of tools for extracting data from web sites and transforming it into a structured data format, such as XML. The resulting data can then be used to build new applications without having to deal with unstructured data. The advantages of our wrapping technology...

Sgvizler is a small JavaScript wrapper for visualization of SPARQL results sets. It integrates well with HTML web pages by letting the user specify SPARQL SELECT queries directly into designated HTML elements, which are rendered to contain the specified visualization type on page load or on function call. Sgvizler supports a vast number of visualization types, most notably all of the major char...

This paper presents a novel method for extracting information from collections of Web pages across different sites. Our method uses a standard wrapper induction algorithm and exploits named entity information. We introduce the idea of post-processing the extraction results for resolving ambiguous facts and improve the overall extraction performance. Postprocessing involves the exploitation of t...