As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based...
In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to extracting semi-structured data from Web sources. The idea is to collect a couple of example objects from the user and to use t...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Alberto H. F. Laender, A...
In this paper we discuss the possible application of new concepts in web content extraction: utility assessment, utility annealing, and dynamic aggregated document generation. Aft...
A variety of information extraction techniques rely on the fact that instances of the same relation are "distributionally similar," in that they tend to appear in simila...
In this paper, we propose a method for extracting image features which utilizes 2 nd order statistics, i.e., spatial and orientational auto-correlations of local gradients. It enab...