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Grubber: Allowing End-Users to Develop XML-Based Wrappers for Web Data Sources

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Advances in Data and Web Management (APWeb 2009, WAIM 2009)

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There exist numerous online data sources on the Web. It is desirable to facilitate end-users to build XML-based wrappers from the data sources for further composition and reuse. This paper describes Grubber, a tool that allows end-users to develop XML-based wrappers from these data sources with just a few mouse clicks and keystrokes. An active learning algorithm was proposed and implemented to reduce end-users’ effort. Experimental results on real-world sites show that the algorithm can achieve a high degree of effectiveness. Compared with other similar tools, Grubber includes a number of usability improvements to lower the barrier of usage and we believe it is suitable for mass end-users to build situational applications.

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60573117 and Grant No.70673098, and the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2007CB310804.

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  1. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Shaohua Yang, Guiling Wang & Yanbo Han

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

    Shaohua Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  2. Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Ling Feng

  3. School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, V5A 1S6, Burnaby BC, Canada

    Jian Pei

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, VT 05405, Burlington, USA

    Sean X. Wang

  5. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  6. Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab of Computer Information Processing Technology School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University China, 1 shizi Street Suzhou, 215006, Jiangsu, China

    Qiao-Ming Zhu

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Yang, S., Wang, G., Han, Y. (2009). Grubber: Allowing End-Users to Develop XML-Based Wrappers for Web Data Sources. In: Li, Q., Feng, L., Pei, J., Wang, S.X., Zhou, X., Zhu, QM. (eds) Advances in Data and Web Management. APWeb WAIM 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00672-2_65

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