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Mining Travel Resources on the Web Using L-Wrappers

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The work described here is part of an ongoing research on the application of general-purpose inductive logic programming, logic representation of wrappers (L-wrappers) and XML technologies (including the XSLT transformation language) to information extraction from the Web. The L-wrappers methodology is based on a sound theoretical approach and has already proved its efficacy on a smaller scale, in the area of collecting product information. This paper proposes the use of L-wrappers for tuple extraction from HTML in the domain of e-tourism. It also outlines a method for translating L-wrappers into XSLT and illustrates it with the example of a real-world travel agency Web site.

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  1. Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Bvd.Decebal 107, Craiova, RO-200440, Romania

    Elvira Popescu & Costin Bădică

  2. Business Information Systems Department, University of Craiova, A.I.Cuza 13, Craiova, RO-200585, Romania

    Amelia Bădică

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Academy of Humanities and Economics, Poland

    Leszek Rutkowski

  2. Institute of Automatics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Ryszard Tadeusiewicz

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of California, 94720-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville, 40292, Louisville, KY, U.S.A

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Popescu, E., Bădică, A., Bădică, C. (2006). Mining Travel Resources on the Web Using L-Wrappers. In: Rutkowski, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Żurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing – ICAISC 2006. ICAISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4029. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11785231_125

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