摘要
当前,Web上的很多网页是动态生成的,网站根据请求从后台数据库中选取数据并嵌入到通用的模板中,例如电子商务网站的商品描述网页.研究如何从这类由模板生成的网页中检测出其背后的模板,并将嵌入的数据(例如商品名称、价格等等)自动地抽取出来.给出了模板检测问题的形式化描述,并深入分析模板产生网页的结构特征.提出了一种新颖的模板检测方法,并利用检测出的模板自动地从实例网页中抽取数据.与其他已有方法相比,该方法能够适用于"列表页面"和"详细页面"两种类型的网页.在两个第三方的测试集上进行了实验,结果表明,该方法具有很高的抽取准确率.
A substantial fraction of the Web consists of pages that are dynamically generated using a common template populated with data from databases, such as product description pages on e-commerce sites. The objective of the proposed research is to automatically detect the template behind these pages and extract embedded data （e.g., product name, price...）. The template detection problem is formalized and an analysis of the underlying structure of template-generated pages is made. A template detection approach is presented and the detected templates are used to extract data from instance pages. Comparing with many other existing work, the approach is applicable for both ＂list pages＂ and ＂detail pages＂. Experimental results on two large third-party test beds show that the approach can achieve high extraction accuracy.
出处
《软件学报》
EI
CSCD
北大核心
2008年第2期209-223,共15页
Journal of Software
基金
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2007CB310804 (国家重点基础研究发展计划(973))
the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60573117 (国家自然科学基金重大研究计划)
the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China under Grant No.2006AA01A106 (国家高技术研究发展计划(863))
