A class of neural-network-based transducers for web information extraction

The Web is a huge and still growing information repository that has attracted the attention of many companies. Many such companies rely on information extractors to integrate information that is buried into semi-structured web documents into automatic business processes. Many information extractors...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Sleiman, Hassan A., Corchuelo Gil, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/143173
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/143173
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2013.05.057
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:web wrappers
web informationextraction
neural networks
finite automata
machine learning
supervised method
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Sumario:The Web is a huge and still growing information repository that has attracted the attention of many companies. Many such companies rely on information extractors to integrate information that is buried into semi-structured web documents into automatic business processes. Many information extractors build on extraction rules,which can be hand crafted or learned using supervised or unsupervised techniques. The literature provides a variety of techniques to learn information extraction rules that build on ad hoc machine learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach that explores the use of standard machine-learning techniques to extract web information. We have specifically explored using neural networks; our results show that our proposal out performs three state-of-the-arttechniques in the literature, which opens up quite a new approach to information extraction.