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Ranking XPaths for extracting search result records
Trieschnigg, Dolf and Tjin-Kam-Jet, Kien and Hiemstra, Djoerd (2012) Ranking XPaths for extracting search result records. [Report]
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| Abstract: | Extracting search result records (SRRs) from webpages is useful for building an aggregated search engine which combines search results from a variety of search engines. Most automatic approaches to search result extraction are not portable: the complete process has to be rerun on a new search result page. In this paper we describe an algorithm to automatically determine XPath expressions to extract SRRs from webpages. Based on a single search result page, an XPath expression is determined which can be reused to extract SRRs from pages based on the same template. The algorithm is evaluated on a six datasets, including two new datasets containing a variety of web, image, video, shopping and news search results. The evaluation shows that for 85% of the tested search result pages, a useful XPath is determined. The algorithm is implemented as a browser plugin and as a standalone application which are available as open source software. |
| Item Type: | Report |
| Faculty: | Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) |
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| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/79917 |
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