Gkotsis, George, Stepanyan, Karen, Cristea, Alexandra I. and Joy, Mike (2013) Zero-cost labelling with web feeds for weblog data extraction. In: 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-17 May 2013. Published in: WWW '13 Companion : Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion pp. 73-74. ISBN 9781450320382.

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Abstract

Data extraction from web pages often involves either human intervention for training a wrapper or a reduced level of granularity in the information acquired. Even though the study of social media has drawn the attention of researchers, weblogs remain a part of the web that cannot be harvested efficiently. In this paper, we propose a fully automated approach in generating a wrapper for weblogs, which exploits web feeds for cheap labelling of weblog properties. Instead of performing a pairwise comparison between posts, the model matches the values of the web feeds against their corresponding HTML elements retrieved from multiple weblog posts. It adopts a probabilistic approach for deriving a set of rules and automating the process of wrapper generation. Our evaluation shows that our approach is robust, accurate and efficient in handling different types of weblogs.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Poster)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Blogs, Data mining
Journal or Publication Title:	WWW '13 Companion : Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Publisher:	International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee
ISBN:	9781450320382
Official Date:	13 May 2013
Dates:	Date Event 13 May 2013 Published
Page Range:	pp. 73-74
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7)
Grant number:	269963 (FP7)
Conference Paper Type:	Poster
Title of Event:	23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date(s) of Event:	13-17 May 2013
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