A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools - SIGMOD Record

A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools Alberto H. F. Laender Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto Juliana S. Teixeira Altigran S. da Silva
Department of Computer Science Federal University of Minas Gerais 31270-901 Belo Horizonte MG Brazil  laender,berthier,alti,juliana @dcc.ufmg.br ABSTRACT   

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