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Automatic Extraction of Semantically-Meaningful Information from the Web

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2002)

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The semantic Web will bring meaning to the Internet, making it possible for web agents to understand the information it contains. However, current trends seem to suggest that the semantic web is not likely to be adopted in the forthcoming years. In this sense, meaningful information extraction from the web becomes a handicap for web agents. In this article, we present a framework for automatic extraction of semantically-meaningful information from the current web. Separating the extraction process from the business logic of an agent enhances modularity, adaptability, and maintainability. Our approach is novel in that it combines different technologies to extract information, surf the web and automatically adapt to web changes.

The work reported in this article was supported by the Spanish Inter-ministerial Commission on Science and Technology under grant TIC2000-1106-C02-01

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  1. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. de la Reina Mercedes, s/n, Sevilla, Spain

    J. Arjona, R. Corchuelo, A. Ruiz & M. Toro

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  1. School of Information Sciences Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Einhoven, The Netherlands

    Paul De Bra

  3. Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros en Informatica Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Málaga, Boulevard Luis Pasteur, 35, Málaga, Spain

    Ricardo Conejo

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Arjona, J., Corchuelo, R., Ruiz, A., Toro, M. (2002). Automatic Extraction of Semantically-Meaningful Information from the Web. In: De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., Conejo, R. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47952-X_5

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