Automatic generation of Web mining environments

Maurizio Cibelli; Gennaro Costagliola

doi:10.1117/12.339984

25 February 1999 Automatic generation of Web mining environments

Maurizio Cibelli, Gennaro Costagliola

Proceedings Volume 3695, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.339984
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The main problem related to the retrieval of information from the world wide web is the enormous number of unstructured documents and resources, i.e., the difficulty of locating and tracking appropriate sources. This paper presents a web mining environment (WME), which is capable of finding, extracting and structuring information related to a particular domain from web documents, using general purpose indices. The WME architecture includes a web engine filter (WEF), to sort and reduce the answer set returned by a web engine, a data source pre-processor (DSP), which processes html layout cues in order to collect and qualify page segments, and a heuristic-based information extraction system (HIES), to finally retrieve the required data. Furthermore, we present a web mining environment generator, WMEG, that allows naive users to generate a WME specific to a given domain by providing a set of specifications.

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Maurizio Cibelli and Gennaro Costagliola "Automatic generation of Web mining environments", Proc. SPIE 3695, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, (25 February 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.339984

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