From Focused Crawling to Expert Information: an Application Framework for Web Exploration and Portal Generation

Summary: Demonstrates automated domain-portal generation by combining adaptive focused crawling of Surface Web content with Web-Service querying of Deep Web forms. BINGO! refines topic classifiers online and integrates heterogeneous results in handicraft and movie portals. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9257
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,827 | 12.00%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50116-6

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Authors

1. Sergej Sizov (University of the Saarland)
2. Jens Graupmann (University of the Saarland)
3. Martin Theobald (University of the Saarland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sizov_vldb03,
        title = {{From Focused Crawling to Expert Information: an Application Framework for Web Exploration and Portal Generation}},
        author = {Sizov, Sergej and Graupmann, Jens and Theobald, Martin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50116-6},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50116-6},
        year = {2003}
}

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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
340	Crawling the Hidden Web	2001	VLDB	0.00020711119
1,178	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00011806558
4,524	Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases	2001	SIGMOD	6.6457031e-05
12,808	The BINGO! System for Information Portal Generation and Expert Web Search	2003	CIDR	5.093636e-05

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