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Lixto is a system and method for the visual and interactive generation of wrappers for Web pages under the supervision of a human developer, for automatically extracting information from Web pages using such wrappers, and for translating the extracted content into XML. This paper describes some advanced features of Lixto, such as disjunctive pattern definitions, specialization rules, and Lixto’s capability of collecting and aggregating information from several linked Web pages.
All new methods and algorithms of the Lixto system are covered by a pending patent. Future developments of Lixto will be reported at www.lixto.com.
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Baumgartner, R., Flesca, S., Gottlob, G. (2001). Declarative Information Extraction, Web Crawling, and Recursive Wrapping with Lixto . In: Eiter, T., Faber, W., Truszczyński, M.l. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45402-0_2
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