Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables
Summary: Automatic extraction and segmentation of records from web tables without user input; leverages common table/list layouts and detail-page links. Two algorithms: constraint-based CSP using detail-page constraints, and probabilistic inference, domain-independent and tested on twelve sites. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)
- 2. Lise Getoor (University of Maryland)
- 3. Steven Minton (Fetch Technologies)
- 4. Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{lerman_sigmod04,
title = {{Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables}},
author = {Lerman, Kristina and Getoor, Lise and Minton, Steven and Knoblock, Craig},
series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007584},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007584},
year = {2004}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,316 | Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011181216 |
| 3,505 | Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction | 2007 | VLDB | 7.3582812e-05 |
| 5,235 | Object-level Vertical Search | 2007 | CIDR | 6.3047329e-05 |
| 7,482 | Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications | 2020 | VLDB | 5.6078973e-05 |
| 8,000 | PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage | 2020 | VLDB | 5.5092344e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 340 | Crawling the Hidden Web | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00020711119 |
| 503 | RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00017314037 |
| 588 | Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00016092668 |
| 717 | Automatic segmentation of text into structured records | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00014649121 |
| 2,329 | Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents | 1999 | SIGMOD | 8.7453177e-05 |
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