Nstar: an interactive tool for local web search

  • Authors:
  • Tao Guan;Kam Fai Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • StorageNetworks, Inc., 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA;Department of System Engineering & Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Information and Management
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Defining Web query languages has received much attention in the last few years. A typical system consists of a wrapper which maps a data source to a common data model and on which semantic integration is provided. However, constructing wrappers is time-consuming and can cater for tens, but not thousands of data sources. New methods should thus be investigated and then developed. In this paper, we present a novel model to retrieve information from the WWW. It is designed for ad hoc users and employs sample-based mining to extract the desirable data. Our method is more flexible than the wrapper approach.