Tuning up FOIL for extracting information from the web. (6th January 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Palacios, Pablo; Fernandez de Viana, Inaki
• Is Part Of: International journal of computer applications technology. Volume 33:Number 4(2008)
• Page Start: 280
• Page End: 284
• Publication Date: 2009-01-06
• Subjects: information extraction -- wrappers -- FOIL -- inductive programming -- information retrieval -- supervised learning -- web retrieval; Technology -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 620.00285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-8091

Abstract

Most websites are designed to be easily understood by human users. This constitutes a problem when you want to access this information automatically. To resolve this problem, different algorithms have emerged to automatically generate and extract information. One of these algorithms is SRV; SRV uses a technique of supervised learning that is expensive in time. In this paper we present various optimisations to reduce this cost by up 40%.