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Publication date: 23 November 2010

Mahmoud Shaker, Hamidah Ibrahim, Aida Mustapha and Lili Nurliyana Abdullah

The aim of this paper is to propose a strategy for extracting information from web tables.

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this paper is to propose a strategy for extracting information from web tables.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents a strategy for extracting information from web tables of semi‐structured web pages (WPs) by handling the issue of synonym which emerges as these WPs have been designed and created without referring to any standards or guidelines.

Findings

The paper finds that this strategy extracts information with high precision, and extracts the attributes besides the sub‐attributes that describe the extracted attributes and values of the sub‐attributes.

Practical implications

Experiment conducted on the Nokia products domain demonstrated that the proposed strategy extracts information from web tables with high precision which is 98.98 percent.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to the research on extracting information.

Details

International Journal of Web Information Systems, vol. 6 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1744-0084

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Article
Publication date: 23 November 2010

Ismail Khalil

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International Journal of Web Information Systems, vol. 6 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1744-0084

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