Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto

Summary: Lixto enables semi-automatic, visual generation of expressive wrappers that extract changing HTML content into XML, hiding its declarative Elog logic from users. It provides continuously updated “XML companions” for Web pages without requiring HTML expertise. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8927
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 8.4118854e-05
Overall Rank: 2,564 | 82.42%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Robert Baumgartner (Vienna University of Technology)
2. Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria)
3. Georg Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{baumgartner_vldb01,
        title = {{Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto}},
        author = {Baumgartner, Robert and Flesca, Sergio and Gottlob, Georg},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,131	The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice	2004	PODS	0.00012044716
1,564	Conjunctive Queries over Trees	2004	PODS	0.00010349456
1,873	A Web of Concepts	2009	PODS	9.5751398e-05
2,180	Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Languages for Web Information Extraction	2002	PODS	9.0110009e-05
3,502	Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste	2009	CIDR	7.3592947e-05
3,944	Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model	2009	SIGMOD	7.0058157e-05
4,107	Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently	2006	PODS	6.8973582e-05
4,943	Datalog Unchained	2021	PODS	6.4332239e-05
5,585	Documentum ECI Self-Repairing Wrappers: Performance Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	6.1599116e-05
5,745	DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database	2014	VLDB	6.1018855e-05
6,011	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	6.0105397e-05
6,359	The INFOMIX System for Advanced Integration of Incomplete and Inconsistent Data	2005	SIGMOD	5.9019991e-05
8,102	Scalable Web Data Extraction for Online Market Intelligence	2009	VLDB	5.4868874e-05
8,805	OXPath: A Language for Scalable, Memory-efficient Data Extraction from Web Applications	2011	VLDB	5.3682755e-05
8,882	Measuring the Structural Similarity of Semistructured Documents Using Entropy	2007	VLDB	5.3516704e-05
9,179	Robust and Noise Resistant Wrapper Induction	2016	SIGMOD	5.3066871e-05
9,853	Supervised Wrapper Generation with Lixto	2001	VLDB	5.2094004e-05
12,718	Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections From Search Engine Result Pages	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,782	COMPASS: A Concept-based Web Search Engine for HTML, XML, and Deep Web Data	2004	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
502	XQuery: A Query Language for XML	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017320395
812	NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents.	1998	SIGMOD	0.00013851743
1,178	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00011806558
2,708	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.2272626e-05
6,506	Content Integration for E-Business	2001	SIGMOD	5.8578445e-05
7,435	Computational Aspects of Resilient Data Extraction from Semistructured Sources	2000	PODS	5.6193788e-05
9,853	Supervised Wrapper Generation with Lixto	2001	VLDB	5.2094004e-05

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