The paper presents the CROSSMARC approach for the complex task of identification of interesting web sites and web pages and the extraction of information from them. This task is hard because most of the information on the Web today is in the form of HTML documents, which are designed for presentation purposes and not for automatic extraction systems. This task becomes even harder in a multiling...

nowadays, world wide web has become a popular medium to search information, business, trading and so on. various organizations and companies are also employing the web in order to introduce their products or services around the world. therefore e-commerce or electronic commerce is formed. e-commerce is any type of business or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information acro...

Figure 1: We envision the synergistic pairing of automated information extraction with community content creation, using the same edits to accelerate both feedback cycles. ABSTRACT Modern web search and browsing interfaces often leverage the structure of Web content. In our work we explore the synergistic pairing of information extraction and community content creation as two interlocking feedb...

A seed-based framework for textual information extraction allows for weakly supervised acquisition of open-domain class attributes over conceptual hierarchies, from a combination of Web documents and query logs. Automaticallyextracted labeled classes, consisting of a label (e.g., painkillers) and an associated set of instances (e.g., vicodin, oxycontin), are linked under existing conceptual hie...

Web Search is increasingly entity-centric; as many common queries target specific entities, search results are progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about entities. However, search over personal Web browsing history still revolves around keyword-search mostly. B-hist aims at providing Web users with an effective tool for searching and accessing information prev...