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An effective and efficient Web content extractor for optimizing the crawling process

Software: Practice and Experience, 2013

Classical Web crawlers make use of only hyperlink information in the crawling process. However, focused crawlers are intended to download only Web pages that are relevant to a given topic by utilizing word information before downloading the Web page. But, Web pages contain additional information that can be useful for the crawling process. We have developed a crawler, iCrawler (intelligent crawler), the backbone of which is a Web content extractor that automatically pulls content out of seven different blocks: menus, links, main texts, headlines, summaries, additional necessaries, and unnecessary texts from Web pages. The extraction process consists of two steps, which invoke each other to obtain information from the blocks. The first step learns which HTML tags refer to which blocks using the decision tree learning algorithm. Being guided by numerous sources of information, the crawler becomes considerably effective. It achieved a relatively high accuracy of 96.37% in our experiments of block extraction. In the second step, the crawler extracts content from the blocks using string matching functions. These functions along with the mapping between tags and blocks learned in the first step provide iCrawler with considerable time and storage efficiency. More specifically, iCrawler performs 14 times faster in the second step than in the first step. Furthermore, iCrawler significantly decreases storage costs by 57.10% when compared with the texts obtained through classical HTML stripping.

HWPDE: Novel Approach for Data Extraction from Structured Web Pages

2013

Diving into the World Wide Web for the purpose of fetching precious stones (relevant information) is a tedious task under the limitations of current diving equipments (Current Browsers). While a lot of work is being carried out to improve the quality of diving equipments, a related area of research is to devise a novel approach for mining. This paper describes a novel approach to extract the web data from the hidden websites so that it can be used as a free service to a user for a better and improved experience of searching relevant data. Through the proposed method, relevant data (Information) contained in the web pages of hidden websites is extracted by the crawler and stored in the local database so as to build a large repository of structured and indexed and ultimately relevant data. Such kind of extracted data has a potential to optimally satisfy the relevant Information starving end user.

Issues and Challenges in Web Crawling for Information Extraction

Bio-Inspired Computing for Information Retrieval Applications

Computational biology and bio inspired techniques are part of a larger revolution that is increasing the processing, storage and retrieving of data in major way. This larger revolution is being driven by the generation and use of information in all forms and in enormous quantities and requires the development of intelligent systems for gathering, storing and accessing information. This chapter describes the concepts, design and implementation of a distributed web crawler that runs on a network of workstations and has been used for web information extraction. The crawler needs to scale (at least) several hundred pages per second, is resilient against system crashes and other events, and is capable to adapted various crawling applications. Further this chapter, focusses on various ways in which appropriate biological and bio inspired tools can be used to implement, automatically locate, understand, and extract online data independent of the source and also to make it available for Sem...

Web Crawler: Design And Implementation For Extracting Article-Like Contents

Cybernetics and Physics, 2020

The World Wide Web is a large, wealthy, and accessible information system whose users are increasing rapidly nowadays. To retrieve information from the web as per users' requests, search engines are built to access web pages. As search engine systems play a significant role in cybernetics, telecommunication, and physics, many efforts were made to enhance their capacity. However, most of the data contained on the web are unmanaged, making it impossible to access the entire network at once by current search engine system mechanisms. Web Crawler, therefore, is a critical part of search engines to navigate and download full texts of the web pages. Web crawlers may also be applied to detect missing links and for community detection in complex networks and cybernetic systems. However, template-based crawling techniques could not handle the layout diversity of objects from web pages. In this paper, a web crawler module was designed and implemented, attempted to extract article-like contents from 495 websites. It uses a machine learning approach with visual cues, trivial HTML, and text-based features to filter out clutters. The outcomes are promising for extracting article-like contents from websites, contributing to the search engine systems development and future research gears towards proposing higher performance systems.

Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery

Computer Networks, 1999

The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource discovery system called a Focused Crawler. The goal of a focused crawler is to selectively seek out pages that are relevant to a pre-defined set of topics. The topics are specified not using keywords, but using exemplary documents. Rather than collecting and indexing all accessible Web documents to be able to answer all possible ad-hoc queries, a focused crawler analyzes its crawl boundary to find the links that are likely to be most relevant for the crawl, and avoids irrelevant regions of the Web. This leads to significant savings in hardware and network resources, and helps keep the crawl more up-to-date.

Extraction of Page-Level Data for Efficient Webpage Indexing

A commercial Web page typically contains many information blocks. Apart from the main content blocks, it usually has such blocks as navigation panels, copyright and privacy notices, and advertisements (for business purposes and for easy user access). We call these blocks that are not the main content blocks of the page, the noisy blocks. We show that the information contained in these noisy blocks can seriously harm Web data mining. Eliminating these noises is thus of great importance. In this project, we propose a noise elimination technique that uses a machine learning (ML) based method which compares HTML tag pairs to estimate how likely they present in the web pages. We use one of the ML techniques called J48 decision tree classifier since decision tree decides the target value (dependent variable) of a new sample based on various attribute values of the available data.

A Framework for Resourceful Retrieval of Specific Websites using Web Crawlers

Knowledge Discovery in database (KDD) is the non-trivial method of identifying legitimate, novel, potentially useful and in the long run comprehensible styles in massive statistics collections. But, with the growing quantity of records the complexity of statistics items increases as well. This turned into performed via Multi-example and multi-represented gadgets are important sorts of item illustration for complex gadgets. Multi-example items carries a fixed of item representations that everyone belong to the identical feature space. Multi-represented items are built as a tuple of characteristic representations in which every characteristic illustration belongs to an extraordinary characteristic space. The proposed paintings will be high accurate internet crawling, which used to extracts new unknown web sites from the WWW with excessive accuracy. We speak the subsequent classes of techniques: (1) sensible Crawling methods: those techniques research the relationship among the hyper-link shape/net page content material and the topic of the internet page. This learned information is applied which will manual the course of the crawl. (2) Collaborative Crawling methods: these techniques utilize the pattern of worldwide net accesses by means of person uses on the way to build the getting to know data. In many cases, person access styles include precious statistical patterns which cannot be inferred from in basic terms linkage data. We are able to additionally speak a few creative approaches of mixing one of a kind form of linkage-and user-focused strategies for you to enhance the effectiveness of the crawl.

Elimination of Redundant Information for Web Data Mining

2005

These days, billions of Web pages are created with HTML or other markup languages. They only have a few uniform structures and contain various authoring styles compared to traditional text-based documents. However, users usually focus on a particular section of the page that presents the most relevant information to their interest. Therefore, Web documents classification needs to group and filter the pages based on their contents and relevant information. Many researches on Web mining report on mining Web structure and extracting information from Web contents. However, they have focused on detecting tables that convey specific data, not the tables that are used as a mechanism for structuring the layout of Web pages. Case modeling of tables can be constructed based on structure abstraction. Furthermore, Ripple Down Rules (RDR) is used to implement knowledge organization and construction, because it supports a simple rule maintenance based on case and local validation.

Automatic Extraction of Complex Web Data

PACIS 2006 Proceedings, 2006

A new wrapper induction algorithm WTM for generating rules that describe the general web page layout template is presented. WTM is mainly designed for use in weblog crawling and indexing system. Most weblogs are maintained by content management systems and have similar layout structures in all pages. In addition, they provide RSS feeds to describe the latest entries. These entries appear in the weblog homepage in HTML format as well. WTM is built upon these two observations. It uses RSS feed data to automatically label the corresponding HTML file (weblog homepage) and induces general template rules from the labeled page. The rules can then be used to extract data from other pages of similar layout template. WTM is tested on some selected weblogs and the results are satisfactory.

Discovering informative content blocks from Web documents

2002

In this paper, we propose a new approach to discover informative contents from a set of tabular documents (or Web pages) of a Web site. Our system, InfoDiscoverer, first partitions a page into several content blocks according to HTML tag

in a Web page. Based on the occurrence of the features (terms) in the set of pages, it calculates entropy value of each feature. According to the entropy value of each feature in a content block, the entropy value of the block is defined. By analyzing the information measure, we propose a method to dynamically select the entropy-threshold that partitions blocks into either informative or redundant. Informative content blocks are distinguished parts of the page, whereas redundant content blocks are common parts.