A brief survey of web data extraction tools

By Alberto H. F. Laender, B. Ribeiro-Neto, A. D. Silva, J. S. Teixeira. SGMD, 2002

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Making mashups with marmite: towards end-user programming for the web (2007, background): “There has also been a great deal of work in developing data wrappers, programs that extract data from a web site so that it can be manipulated by traditional database systems [18, 19].”
A Survey of Web Information Extraction Systems (2006, methodology): “Laender proposed a taxonomy for data extraction tools based on the main technique used by each tool to generate a wrapper [16].”
Web Data Extraction, Applications and Techniques: A Survey (2012, methodology): “Web Data Extraction systems are a broad class of software applications targeting at extracting information from Web sources like Web pages [Laender et al. 2002; Baumgartner et al. 2009].”
Extracting structured data from Web pages (2003, methodology): “We refer the reader to a recent survey [16] and tutorial [24] for more related work.”
ViDE: A Vision-Based Approach for Deep Web Data Extraction (2010, background): “Good surveys about previous works on Web data extraction can be found in [16] and [5].”
Fully automatic wrapper generation for search engines (2005, background): “A good survey about current works on IE can be found in [19].”