Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...
Given a document repository, search engine is very helpful to retrieve information. Currently, vertical search is a hot topic, and Google Scholar [4] is an example for academic se...
Ye Wang, Zhihua Geng, Sheng Huang, Xiaoling Wang, ...
We demonstrate a system to automatically grab data from data intensive web sites. The system first infers a model that describes at the intensional level the web site as a collec...
Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Meria...
The paper investigates techniques for extracting data from HTML sites through the use of automatically generated wrappers. To automate the wrapper generation and the data extracti...
Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Meria...
In this paper, we describe MySearchView ? a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letti...