A strategy for extracting information from semi-structuredrnweb pages

摘要

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to propose a strategy for extracting information from web tables. Design/methodology/approach - The paper presents a strategy for extracting information from web tables of semi-structured web pages (WPs) by handling the issue of synonym which emerges as these WPs have been designed and created without referring to. any standards or guidelines. Findings - The paper finds that this strategy extracts information with high precision, and extracts the attributes besides the sub-attributes that describe the extracted attributes and values of the sub-attributes. Practical implications - Experiment conducted on the Nokia products domain demonstrated that the proposed strategy extracts information from web tables with high precision which is 98.98 percent. Originality/value - This paper contributes to the research on extracting information.