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In a few business sectors, there exist marketplace sites that provide the consumer with specifications forms, which the consumer can fill out to learn and compare the service terms of multiple service providers. At HP Labs, we are working towards building a universal marketplace site, i.e., a marketplace site that covers thousands of sectors and hundreds to thousands of providers per sector. We automatically generate the specifications forms for the sectors through a statistical clustering algorithm that utilizes both business directories and web forms from service provider sites.
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Ozonat, K. (2009). Generation of Specifications Forms through Statistical Learning for a Universal Services Marketplace. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_42
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