Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Ariadne: a system for constructing mediators for Internet sources
SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Information extraction from HTML: application of a general machine learning approach
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
IEPAD: information extraction based on pattern discovery
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
NTM-Agent: Text Mining Agent or Net Auction
SAINT '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Supporting program indexing and querying in source code digital libraries
AOIS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III
Agent oriented data integration
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
Net auctions have been widely utilized with the recent development of the Internet. However, it is a problem that there are too many items for bidders to select the most suitable one. We aim at supporting the bidders on net auctions by automatically generating a table which contains the features of several items for comparison. We construct a system called NTM-Agent(Net auction Text Mining Agent). The system collects Web pages of items and extracts the items' features from the pages. After that, it generates a table which contains the extracted features. This research focuses on two problems in the process. The first problem is that if the system collects items automatically, the results contain the items which is different from the items of the user's target. The second problem is that the descriptions in net auctions are not uniform (There are different formats such as sentences, items and tables. The subjects of some sentences are omitted.). Therefore, it is difficult to extract the information from the descriptions by conventional methods of information extraction. This research proposes methods to solve the problems. For the first problem, NTM-Agent filters the items by correlation rules about the keywords in the titles and the item descriptions. These rules are created semi-automatically by a support tool. For the second problem, NTM-Agent extracts the information by distinguishing the formats. It also learns the feature values from plain examples for the future extraction.