RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites

Summary: RoadRunner applies a matching technique to auto-generate a common wrapper/schema from pages in the same class. Uses Approximate and Partial Matching to cope with irregular HTML, yielding a single wrapper/schema for varied pages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3461
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 5.7963597e-05
Overall Rank: 6,711 | 53.96%
DOI: 10.1145/564691.564778

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Authors

1. Valter Crescenzi (Roma Tre University)
2. Giansalvatore Mecca (University of Basilicata)
3. Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{crescenzi_sigmod02,
        title = {{RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites}},
        author = {Crescenzi, Valter and Mecca, Giansalvatore and Merialdo, Paolo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564778},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564778},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,609	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.3476234e-05
12,782	COMPASS: A Concept-based Web Search Engine for HTML, XML, and Deep Web Data	2004	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,783	An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites	2004	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
503	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00017314037

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