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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
10252
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
6.8460927e-05
Overall Rank
3,679 | 74.44%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,855 An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web 2012 VLDB 0.00010319508
2,607 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.4615436e-05
5,938 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.2605665e-05
6,137 DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database 2014 VLDB 5.190481e-05
6,407 CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web 2018 VLDB 5.0691335e-05
7,919 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 4.6123189e-05
8,301 Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction 2012 SIGMOD 4.5392079e-05
9,028 Robust and Noise Resistant Wrapper Induction 2016 SIGMOD 4.4009442e-05
10,126 Visual Template Inference for Data Extraction from Documents 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,547 Migrating a Privacy-Safe Information Extraction System to a Software 2.0 Design 2020 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,093 Aggregating Semantic Annotators 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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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
108 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00048345996
534 RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites 2001 VLDB 0.00020739037
586 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001963091
1,131 Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F 1999 VLDB 0.00013766101
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
4,228 Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future 2009 CIDR 6.3354352e-05
4,438 Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model 2009 SIGMOD 6.1819088e-05
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