Extracting Logical Hierarchical Structure of HTML Documents Based on Headings

Summary: Heading-driven extraction of the logical HTML hierarchy, addressing mismatch between markup and semantics. Uses heading position, visual prominence, and level-based styling to derive hierarchical blocks with their associated headings, outperforming prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11226
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.9193546e-05
Overall Rank: 6,308 | 56.73%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824058

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tomohiro Manabe (Kyoto University)
2. Keishi Tajima (Kyoto University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{manabe_vldb15,
        title = {{Extracting Logical Hierarchical Structure of HTML Documents Based on Headings}},
        author = {Manabe, Tomohiro and Tajima, Keishi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1606},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824058},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824058},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,677	Visual Segmentation for Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Visually Rich Documents	2019	SIGMOD	5.3867222e-05
9,398	Improving Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documents using Visual Span Representations	2021	VLDB	5.2755515e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
588	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.00016092668
2,415	Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web	2013	VLDB	8.6069635e-05
2,609	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.3476234e-05
5,554	Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction	2011	SIGMOD	6.1775485e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	1,316	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB
2	12,738	A Framework for Processing Complex Document-centric XML with Overlapping Structures	2005	SIGMOD
3	14,009	A Method of Re-ranking Web Search Results Using their Hidden Hyperlink Structure	2002	VLDB
4	3,944	Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model	2009	SIGMOD
5	7,811	The Smallest Extraction Problem	2021	VLDB
6	2,096	An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web	2012	VLDB
7	588	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD
8	3,523	Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables	2004	SIGMOD
9	2,329	Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents	1999	SIGMOD
10	5,545	A Hierarchical Approach to Model Web Query Interfaces for Web Source Integration	2009	VLDB