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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
HDSampler: revealing data behind web form interfaces
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax
Recently, the Web has been rapidly "deepened" by many searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. For modelling and integrating Web databases,...
Zhen Zhang, Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
ICDE
2008
IEEE
153views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Automatically Extracting Form Labels
We describe a machine-learning-based approach for extracting attribute labels from Web form interfaces. Having these labels is a requirement for several techniques that attempt to ...
Hoa Nguyen, Eun Yong Kang, Juliana Freire
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
109views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting Keyword Queries on Structured Databases with Limited Search Interfaces
Many Web sources provide forms to allow users to query their hidden data. For instance, online stores such as Amazon.com have search interfaces, using which users can query informa...
Nurcan Yuruk, Xiaowei Xu, Chen Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient Acquisition of Web Data through Restricted Query Interfaces
A wealth of information is available on the Web. But often, such data are hidden behind form interfaces which allow only a restrictive set of queries over the underlying databases...
Cláudio T. Silva, Juliana Freire, Simon Bye...