In this paper, we present the W4F toolkit for the generation of wrappers for Web sources. W4F consists of a retrieval language to identify Web sources, a declarative extraction language (the HTML Extraction Language) to express robust extraction rules and a mapping interface to export the extracted information into some user-defined data-structures. To assist the user and make the creation of wrappers rapid and easy, the toolkit offers some wysiwyg support via some wizards. Together, they permit the fast and semi-automatic generation of ready-to-go wrappers provided as Java classes. W4F has been successfully used to generate wrappers for database systems and software agents, making the content of Web sources easily accessible to any kind of...
Creation of web wrappers (i.e programs that extract data from the web) is a subject of study in the ...
The enormous amount of information available through the World Wide Web requires the development of ...
Recently, many systems have been built that auto-matically interact with Internet information resour...
In this paper, we present the W4F toolkit for the generation of wrappers for Web sources. W4F consis...
In this paper we present the World-Wide WebWrapper Factory (W4F), a Java toolkit to generate wrapper...
The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successfu...
There is an increase in the number of data sources that can be queried across the WWW. Such sources ...
A substantial subset of the web data follows some kind of underlying structure. Nevertheless, HTML d...
Information available on the Internet is made to be read by humans, not to be processed by machines....
Many information sources on the Web are semi-structured; hence there is an oppor-tunity for automati...
145 p.The Web has so fax been incredibly successful at delivering information to various groups of p...
While much of the data on the web is unstructured in nature, there is also a significant amount of e...
The Web has become a major conduit to information repositories of all kinds. Today, more than 80% of...
A crucial challenge for information extraction from the WWW is to generate wrappers, which are infor...
In order to let software programs gain full benefit from semi-structured web sources, wrapper progra...
Creation of web wrappers (i.e programs that extract data from the web) is a subject of study in the ...
The enormous amount of information available through the World Wide Web requires the development of ...
Recently, many systems have been built that auto-matically interact with Internet information resour...
In this paper, we present the W4F toolkit for the generation of wrappers for Web sources. W4F consis...
In this paper we present the World-Wide WebWrapper Factory (W4F), a Java toolkit to generate wrapper...
The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successfu...
There is an increase in the number of data sources that can be queried across the WWW. Such sources ...
A substantial subset of the web data follows some kind of underlying structure. Nevertheless, HTML d...
Information available on the Internet is made to be read by humans, not to be processed by machines....
Many information sources on the Web are semi-structured; hence there is an oppor-tunity for automati...
145 p.The Web has so fax been incredibly successful at delivering information to various groups of p...
While much of the data on the web is unstructured in nature, there is also a significant amount of e...
The Web has become a major conduit to information repositories of all kinds. Today, more than 80% of...
A crucial challenge for information extraction from the WWW is to generate wrappers, which are infor...
In order to let software programs gain full benefit from semi-structured web sources, wrapper progra...
Creation of web wrappers (i.e programs that extract data from the web) is a subject of study in the ...
The enormous amount of information available through the World Wide Web requires the development of ...
Recently, many systems have been built that auto-matically interact with Internet information resour...