Learning to Extract Form Labels

Summary: Presents a learning classifier ensemble to identify element–label mappings for Web forms; adds a reconciliation step to boost extraction accuracy. Evaluated on over 3,000 forms, it yields higher accuracy and robustness to layout variability than prior heuristic approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9897
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.3283239e-05
Overall Rank: 9,031 | 38.04%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453931

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hoa Nguyen (University of Utah)
2. Thanh Nguyen (University of Utah)
3. Juliana Freire (University of Utah)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nguyen_vldb08,
        title = {{Learning to Extract Form Labels}},
        author = {Nguyen, Hoa and Nguyen, Thanh and Freire, Juliana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {684--695},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453931},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453931},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,745	DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database	2014	VLDB	6.1018855e-05
12,435	Creating and Exploring Web Form Repositories	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 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
778	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014102198
791	An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013995705
969	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012892148
2,554	Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax	2004	SIGMOD	8.4252755e-05
3,690	Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web	2005	CIDR	7.2007927e-05

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