DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web

Summary: DEXTER locates product-spec pages with a focused crawler (queries + backlinks) and detects specs via a supervised HTML-fragment classifier. Extraction uses two wrappers: (i) a domain-independent unsupervised wrapper from shared structure, and (ii) a noisy-annotator hybrid; results on 1.46M pages show F≈0.9, precision 0.92, recall 0.95. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11136
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.6123189e-05
Overall Rank: 7,919 | 44.97%
DOI: -

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11,783	Building Structured Databases of Factual Knowledge from Massive Text Corpora	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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519	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00021148006
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814	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016298739
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3,679	Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction	2011	VLDB	6.8460927e-05
3,751	Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction	2007	VLDB	6.7861406e-05
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6,137	DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database	2014	VLDB	5.190481e-05
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