Understanding web documents: finding pagelets for transformation using structural patterns
by Reza Ferrydiansyah, Bambang Parmanto
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), Vol. 4, No. 3, 2008

Abstract: Understanding a web document and the sections inside the document is very important for web transformation and information retrieval from web pages. Detecting pagelets, which are small features located inside a web page, in order to understand a web document's structure is a difficult problem. Current work on pagelet detection focuses only on finding the location of the pagelet without regard to its functionality. We describe a method to detect both the location and functionality of pagelets using HTML element patterns. For each pagelet type, an HTML element pattern is created and matched to a web page. Sections of the web page that matches the patterns are marked as pagelet candidates. We test this technique on multiple popular web pages from the news and e-commerce genres. We find that this method adequately recalls various pagelets from the web page.

Online publication date: Tue, 15-Jul-2008

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