Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model
Summary: Proposes a probabilistic tree-edit model for HTML learned from web snapshots to track evolution with quadratic-time likelihood. A wrapper framework uses the model to build robust wrappers, outperforming traditional ones on synthetic and real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Nilesh Dalvi (Yahoo)
- 2. Philip Bohannon (Yahoo)
- 3. Fei Sha (University of Southern California)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{dalvi_sigmod09,
title = {{Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model}},
author = {Dalvi, Nilesh and Bohannon, Philip and Sha, Fei},
series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559882},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559882},
year = {2009}
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| 1,919 | A Web of Concepts | 2009 | PODS | 9.3747487e-05 |
| 3,395 | Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction | 2011 | VLDB | 7.3403288e-05 |
| 3,913 | Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.9274273e-05 |
| 5,867 | DIADEM: Thousands of Websites to a Single Database | 2014 | VLDB | 5.9629039e-05 |
| 6,779 | Optimal Schemes for Robust Web Extraction | 2011 | VLDB | 5.6829034e-05 |
| 7,976 | The Smallest Extraction Problem | 2021 | VLDB | 5.412478e-05 |
| 8,141 | DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3902593e-05 |
| 9,363 | Robust and Noise Resistant Wrapper Induction | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.1851635e-05 |
| 10,616 | Visual Template Inference for Data Extraction from Documents | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 12,217 | Big Data Linkage for Product Specification Pages | 2018 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 12,772 | Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information | 2010 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 515 | RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00016962516 |
| 1,204 | Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00011542699 |
| 2,617 | Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto | 2001 | VLDB | 8.2214712e-05 |
| 5,195 | Mapping Maintenance for Data Integration Systems | 2005 | VLDB | 6.232689e-05 |
| 5,713 | Documentum ECI Self-Repairing Wrappers: Performance Analysis | 2006 | SIGMOD | 6.0190005e-05 |
| 6,329 | myPortal: Robust Extraction and Aggregation of Web Content | 2006 | VLDB | 5.8108283e-05 |
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