Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction

Summary: Unsupervised wrapper induction tolerant to noisy training data enables scalable information extraction from data without site-level supervision. Generic framework yields accuracy surpassing unsupervised methods; deployed at Yahoo powering live apps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10251
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.8517545e-05
Overall Rank: 3,678 | 74.42%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,851	An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web	2012	VLDB	0.00010327871
2,617	Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources	2013	VLDB	8.4462621e-05
5,937	DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations	2015	CIDR	5.2650964e-05
6,133	DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database	2014	VLDB	5.1954702e-05
6,412	CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web	2018	VLDB	5.0740036e-05
7,919	DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web	2015	VLDB	4.616746e-05
8,307	Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction	2012	SIGMOD	4.5435639e-05
9,026	Robust and Noise Resistant Wrapper Induction	2016	SIGMOD	4.4051668e-05
10,126	Visual Template Inference for Data Extraction from Documents	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,543	Migrating a Privacy-Safe Information Extraction System to a Software 2.0 Design	2020	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
12,085	Aggregating Semantic Annotators	2013	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
107	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048377684
533	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00020757722
587	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.00019648348
1,132	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00013777657
1,317	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00012625853
4,229	Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future	2009	CIDR	6.3399547e-05
4,440	Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model	2009	SIGMOD	6.187819e-05

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Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
587	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.00019648348
8,307	Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction	2012	SIGMOD	4.5435639e-05
6,403	RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites	2002	SIGMOD	5.0797045e-05
2,617	Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources	2013	VLDB	8.4462621e-05
4,440	Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model	2009	SIGMOD	6.187819e-05
533	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00020757722
8,322	An XML-based Wrapper Generator for Web Information Extraction	1999	SIGMOD	4.5435639e-05
9,026	Robust and Noise Resistant Wrapper Induction	2016	SIGMOD	4.4051668e-05
6,751	Optimal Schemes for Robust Web Extraction	2011	VLDB	4.939042e-05
12,590	An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites	2004	VLDB	4.1945683e-05