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Abstract NoDoSE- A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and
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author = {Semistructured Data and Text Documents},
title = {Abstract NoDoSE- A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and},
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Abstract
Often interesting structured or semistructured data is not in database systems but in HTML pages, text files, or on paper. The data in these formats is not usable by standard query processing engines and hence users need a way of extracting data from these sources into a DBMS or of writing wrappers around the sources. This paper describes NoDoSE, the Northwestern Docu-ment Structure Extractor, which is an interactive tool for semi-automatically determining the structure of such documents and then extracting their data. Using a GUI, the user hierarchically decomposes the file, outlining its interesting regions and then describing their semantics. This task is expedited by a mining component that at-tempts to infer the grammar of the file from the in-formation the user has input so far. Once the format of a document has been determined, its data can be extracted into a number of useful forms. This paper describes both the NoDoSE architecture, which can be used as a test bed for structure mining algorithms in general, and the mining algorithms that have been de-veloped by the author. The prototype, which is written in Java, is described and experiences parsing a variety of documents are reported. 1
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