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....Moreover, most of the previously mentioned wrappers are based on regular pattern recognition. Thus, when a Web site changes, the change affects not only the part modified, but also the whole regular expression pattern. Both resiliency and scalability problems make wrapper maintenance difficult [8, 30, 34]. An alternative approach, which does not have these resiliency and scalability difficulties, is the ontology based data extraction approach proposed by Embley et al. at Brigham Young University [11, 15] A data extraction ontology is a conceptual model instance that describes a real world ....

B. Chidlovskii, U. Borghoff, and P. Chevalier. Towards sophisticated wrapping of web-based information repositories. In Proceedings of 5th International RIAO Conference on Computer-Assisted Information Searching on the Internet, pages 123--135, Montreal, Canada, June 25-27, 1997.

....queries, dynamic refinement [11] and multiple searches in parallel. The wrappers provide an interface between the brokers and the final database. These wrappers can impose structure on raw information such as Web pages and can be written semiautomatically for new sources of information [14][15]. The rapid and semi automatic construction of wrappers makes Knowledge Brokers very useful in Intranet and Extranet settings, where companies need to connect legacy databases with a simple user interface. Knowledge Brokers provide a very simple infrastructure to query multiple sources of ....

Chidlovskii, B., U. Borghoff and P. Y. Chevalier (1997): Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories. In Proc. of the 5th Int'l RIAO Conf., June 25-27, 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 123-135.

....Now, if we are to build a software agent that can make use of this resource, then we must provide it with a procedure which, when invoked on such a document, extracts the document s content. In the literature, such specialized procedures are commonly called wrappers [Papakonstantinou et al. 95, Chidlovskii et al. 97, Roth Schwartz 97] This thesis is concerned with such semi structured information resources those that exhibit regularity of this nature. This focus in motivated by three concerns: ffl Semi structured resources generally do not employ unrestricted natural language text, but rather exhibit a ....

.... et al. 91] disco [Florescu et al. 95] garlic [Carey et al. 95] hermes [Adali et al. 96] the Information Manifold [Levy et al. 96] sims [Arens et al. 96] tsimmis [Chawathe et al. 94] fusion [Smeaton Crimmins 97] BargainFinder [Krulwich 96] and the Knowledge Broker [Andreoli et al. 96, Chidlovskii et al. 97] While these systems are primarily research prototypes, there is substantial commercial interest in software agents and heterogeneous database integration products. Examples include Jango [www.jango.com] Junglee [www.junglee.com] AlphaCONNECT [www.alphamicro.com] BidFind [www.vsn.net af] ....

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Chidlovskii, B., Borghoff, U., and Chevalier, P. Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories. In Proc. Conf. Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval, pages 123--35, 1997.

....Service (NS) This service is responsible for managing the incoming news transmitted by News Agencies. The news are sent to the Push service for indexing. iii) Wrapper Service (WS) This service is responsible for retrieving HTML pages by querying several online Web databases and search engines [5]. The collected pages are sent to the Pull service and the Push Service for indexing. The WS uses the topics of interest defined by the users for automatically select good candidates of information sources to be queried (see [9] Therefore, through the GS, NS and the WS Eurogatherer is able to ....

# Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff and Pierre-Yves Chevalier. Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Webbased Information Repositories. In Proc. 5 th Int'l RIAO Conf., Montreal, Canada, June 25-27, 1997, pp. 123-135.

....for. The extraction rules will be dependent on the overall organisation of the Web page, and some rules will have limitations that prohibit them from being used on some types of pages. Web pages that appear as results from queries to online databases often result in a set of hyperlinked pages. In [14], such semistructured Web pages are classified as either (i) one level one page result, where one page contains all items related to the original query, ii) one level multi page result, where more links must be followed to get the full listing of answers, and (iii) two level pages, where for each ....

B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P-Y. Chevalier. Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories. Proceedings of the 5'th International RIAO Conference, Montreal, Quebec, June 1997.

....data. A wide variety of languages have been developed for manually writing wrappers (i.e. where the extraction rules are written by a human expert) from procedural languages (Atzeni and Mecca, 1997) and Perl scripts (Cohen, 1998) to pattern matching (Chawathe et al. 1994) and LL(k) grammars (Chidlovskii et al. 1997). Even though these systems offer fairly expressive extraction languages, the manual wrapper generation is a tedious, time consuming task that requires a high level of expertise; furthermore, the rules have to be rewritten whenever the sources suffer format changes. In order to help the users cope ....

Chidlovskii, B., U. Borghoff, and P. Chevalier: 1997, `Towards sophisticated wrapping of Web-based information repositories'. In: Proceedings of 5th International RIAO Conference. pp. 123--35.

....compromise with the expressive power of the specification language to protect its declarativeness and minimize the programming task. TSIMMIS, and OnDisplay combine the declarative specifications with programming hooks to create a wrapper development environment. In fact many more projects (e. g [CBC97, KNNM96] are developing wrapper development environemnts as a set of libraries for retrieving, parsing, and extracting data from documents. The set of ECLiPSe tools we have developed for the prototyping of wrappers fall into the latter category. 5.1 EdgarScan EdgarScan [Fer97] is an ....

B. Chidlovskii, U. Borghoff, and P.-Y. Chevalier. Towards sophisticated wrapping of web-based information repositories. In Proceedings of the 5th International RIAO Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1997.

.... Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction Ion Muslea, Steve Minton, and Craig Knoblock University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 6695 fmuslea, minton, knoblockg isi.edu Abstract With the tremendous amount of information that becomes available on the Web on a daily basis, the ability to quickly develop information agents has become a crucial problem. A vital component of any ....

.... Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction Ion Muslea, Steve Minton, and Craig Knoblock University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 6695 fmuslea, minton, knoblockg isi.edu Abstract With the tremendous amount of information that becomes available on the Web on a daily basis, the ability to quickly develop information agents has become a crucial problem. A vital component of any ....

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....page in Fig. 1 three tuples can be extracted, the rst of which is displayed in Fig. 2. Like most result pages, the page in Fig. 1 shows variation in the items, as the second item lacks a description and the third a relevance ranking. Manually programming wrappers is a cumbersome and tedious task [4], and since the presentation of the search results of search engines often changes, it has to be done frequently. Hence, there have been various attempts to automate this task [3, 10, 11, 13, 14] The approach we describe is based on a simple incremental grammar induction algorithm. As input, it ....

Chidlovskii, B., Borgho, U., Chevalier, P.-Y. Chevalier. Toward Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories. Proc. 5th RIAO Conference, Montreal, Canada, pages 123-135, 1997.

....We propose two strategies for query subsumption and discuss in detail the strategy which minimizes the number of submitted sub queries. We derive an appropriate query form for the minimal strategy and demonstrate how both translation strategies are implemented in the Knowledge Brokers system [2, 6]. 1 Introduction Distributed information retrieval and gathering on the Web relies upon request brokering and cooperation with multiple search services. Due to the heterogeneity of the Web, the services usually support query languages with various facilities for formulating a query. As a result, ....

....study advantages and disadvantages of both strategies. For the minimal model which is aimed at the minimization of query submissions, we prove some important results and derive appropriate procedures. We also discuss how the query translation problem is implemented in the Knowledge Brokers system [2, 6]. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we will consider the query translation architecture, the front end query model and the predicate rewriting rules adopted in the Knowledge Brokers. Then, in Section 3 we will discuss the subsumption strategies for the case of ....

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.... discards irrelevant information such as layout instructions and advertisements; it extracts information relevant to the user query from the textual content and attributes of certain tags (e.g. the href attribute of the A tag) Manually programming wrappers is a cumbersome and tedious task [4], and since the presentation of the search results of search engines changes often, it has to be done frequently. To address this, there have been various attempts to automate this task [3, 9, 10, 12, 13] Our approach is based on a simple incremental grammar induction algorithm. As input, our ....

Chidlovskii, B., Borgho, U., Chevalier, P.-Y. Chevalier. Toward Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories. Proc. 5th RIAO Conference, Montreal, Canada, pages 123-135, 1997.

.... in use, support only AND (or OR) operators to force the user to be more (less) selective during the search (as an example, ACM Digital Library at http: www.acm.com) In this paper, we describe a solution to the query translation problem adopted in the Knowledge Broker [Borghoff et al. 1996, Chidlovskii et al. 1997] We assume one word query as a basic facility of a native language with Boolean operators being optional. We then study the cases of operational limitation and the possibility of one query subsumption. For the cases when one query subsumption is impossible, we show how the minimal number of ....

Chidlovskii B., U. M. Borghoff and P.-Y. Chevalier. 1997. Toward Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories, Proc. Int'l RIAO'97 Conference, Montreal, 123-135.

....to account for transactional computations needed to support such applications as workflow management and electronic commerce; see for instance (Andreoli Pareschi 1996) and references cited therein. First results concerning the methods of the refinement on the server side are discussed in (Chidlovskii, Borghoff Chevalier 1997). ffl Agents correspond here to simple information filters organized in topologies that can dynamically evolve through their interaction with an environment given by the users requesting information and the servers providing it. Thus, they are agents more from the point of view of artificial life ....

Chidlovskii, B.; Borghoff, U. M.; and Chevalier, P.-Y. 1997. Towards sophisticated wrapping of web-based information repositories. In Proc. 5th Int. RIAO Conf. on Computer-Assisted Information Searching on Internet. Montreal, Canada.

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