Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents
Summary: Tree-based heuristic for record-boundary discovery in Web documents with multiple records: locate the record subtree and derive a consensus separator tag from five independent heuristics. Linear-time in practice with 100% accuracy in experiments, enabling robust record-level extraction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. D.W. Embley (Brigham Young University)
- 2. Y. Jiang (Brigham Young University)
- 3. Y.-K. Ng (Brigham Young University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{embley_sigmod99,
title = {{Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents}},
author = {Embley, D.W. and Jiang, Y. and Ng, Y.-K.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/304182.304223},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304223},
year = {1999}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 735 | Automatic segmentation of text into structured records | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00014373044 |
| 1,337 | Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00010987014 |
| 3,588 | Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables | 2004 | SIGMOD | 7.1870903e-05 |
| 5,319 | Object-level Vertical Search | 2007 | CIDR | 6.182759e-05 |
| 9,578 | Web Record Extraction with Invariants | 2023 | VLDB | 5.1571823e-05 |
| 13,008 | Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections From Search Engine Result Pages | 2006 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,174 | Toward Learning Based Web Query Processing | 2000 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 832 | NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents. | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00013584281 |
| 2,763 | Cut and Paste | 1997 | PODS | 8.044061e-05 |
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