Supervised Wrapper Generation with Lixto

Summary: Introduces Lixto, a supervised wrapper generator for data extraction, highlighting user-system interaction, a capacious visual interface, and marking workflows. Demonstrates the approach via a simple example in the Lixto prototype. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9007
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.2094004e-05
Overall Rank: 9,853 | 32.40%
DOI: -

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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 = {{Supervised Wrapper Generation with Lixto}},
        author = {Baumgartner, Robert and Flesca, Sergio and Gottlob, Georg},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,564	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.4118854e-05
11,448	Scalable Reasoning on Document Stores via Instance-Aware Query Rewriting	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,564	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.4118854e-05

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