An XML-based Wrapper Generator for Web Information Extraction

Summary: XWrap is an XML-enabled, semi-automatic wrapper generator for web information extraction that uses page formatting to infer semantic structure. Declarative, rule-based extraction; it generates source-specific wrappers and XML templates and supports interactive refinement through phase-based construction to reduce manual effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3210
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.4119882e-05
Overall Rank: 8,558 | 41.29%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304570

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ling Liu (Oregon Graduate Institute)
2. Wei Han (Oregon Graduate Institute)
3. David Buttler (Oregon Graduate Institute)
4. Calton Pu (Oregon Graduate Institute)
5. Wei Tang (Oregon Graduate Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod99,
        title = {{An XML-based Wrapper Generator for Web Information Extraction}},
        author = {Liu, Ling and Han, Wei and Buttler, David and Pu, Calton and Tang, Wei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304570},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304570},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,884	Toward Learning Based Web Query Processing	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,172	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.8535493e-05
14,175	CQ: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit	1998	SIGMOD	-

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