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Deep web performance enhance on search engine
... In web there is growing interest in techniques that help you to locate the web interfaces efficiently. However, due to the large volume of web resources and due to its dynamic nature, reaching a broad coverage and providing efficient result is a challenge [5,7,8]. ...
... This paper presented a client-side privacy protection framework called UPS for personalized web search. D. Kumar [5], proposed a process which is done by crawler by indexing deep web sites for efficient access. In this Deep Web public access contents that are hidden data indexed in such way that it can be efficiently crawl by general search engine crawler. ...
An increasing number of databases have become web accessible through HTML form-based search interfaces. The data units returned from the underlying database are usually encoded into the result pages dynamically for human browsing. For the encoded data units to be machine processable, which is essential for many applications such as deep web data collection and Internet comparison shopping, they need to be extracted out and assigned meaningful labels. In this paper, we present an automatic annotation approach that first aligns the data units on a result page into different groups such that the data in the same group have the same semantic. Then, for each group we annotate it from different aspects and aggregate the different annotations to predict a final annotation label for it. An annotation wrapper for the search site is automatically constructed and can be used to annotate new result pages from the same web database. Our experiments indicate that the proposed approach is highly effective.
There are two types of web-Surface web & Deep web. Surface web is crawled by a general purpose search engine like-Google, Yahoo etc. Deep web is the area of the WWW which is hidden from general purpose search engine. Hence the information of deep web is not retrieved by general purpose search engine. In this paper we built unified interfaces for different domains like books, movies, electronics etc. A query is passed through this unified interface to the website servers and we find the result of high accuracy for different domains. Using this techniques the less time is consumed for searching the query in a specific domains in comparison of general purpose search engines .
Deep web search requires a transformation between search keywords and semantically described and well-formed data structures. We approached this problem in our "In the Web of Words" (WoW) project by allowing natural language sentence queries and by a context identification method that connects the queries and deep web sites via database information. In this paper we propose a novel SQL based ap- proach that can identify the focus of input questions if the information is represented in a database. We propose a new relational database design technique called normalized natural database (NNDB) to capture the meaning of data structures. We show that a proper NNDB is a context database, and it can serve as the basis of context identification combin- ing the template based techniques and the world model encoded in the database.
Crawling deep web is the process of collecting data from search interfaces by issuing queries. With wide availability of programmable interface encoded in web services, deep web crawling has received a large variety of applications. One of the major challenges crawling deep web is the selec- tion of the queries so that most of the data can be retrieved at a low cost. We propose a general method in this regard. In order to minimize the duplicates retrieved, we reduced the problem of selecting an optimal set of queries from a sample of the data source into the well-known set- cover- ing problem and adopt a classical algorithm to resolve it. To verify that the queries selected from a sample also pro- duce a good result for the entire data source, we carried out a set of experiments on large corpora including Wikipedia and Reuters. We show that our sampling-based method is effective by empirically proving that 1) The queries selected from samples can harvest most of the data in the original database; 2) The queries with low overlapping rate in sam- ples will also result in a low overlapping rate in the original database; and 3) The size of the sample and the size of the terms from where to select the queries do not need to be very large.
In this paper, we present VisQI (VISual Query interface Integration system), a Deep Web integration system. VisQI is capable of (1) transforming Web query interfaces into hierarchically structured representations, (2) of classifying them into application domains and (3) of matching the elements of different interfaces. Thus VisQI contains solutions for the major challenges in building Deep Web integration systems.
The system comes along with a full-fledged evaluation system that automatically compares generated data structures against a gold standard. VisQI has a framework-like architecture such that other developers can reuse its components easily.
The Deep Web, i.e., content hidden behind HTML forms, has long been acknowledged as a significant gap in search engine coverage. Since it represents a large portion of the structured data on the Web, accessing Deep-Web content has been a long-standing challenge for the database community. This paper describes a system for surfacing Deep-Web content, i.e., pre-computing submissions for each HTML form and adding the resulting HTML pages into a search engine index. The results of our surfacing have been incorporated into the Google search engine and today drive more than a thousand queries per second to Deep-Web content.
Surfacing the Deep Web poses several challenges. First, our goal is to index the content behind many millions of HTML forms that span many languages and hundreds of domains. This necessitates an approach that is completely automatic, highly scalable, and very efficient. Second, a large number of forms have text inputs and require valid inputs values to be submitted. We present an algorithm for selecting input values for text search inputs that accept keywords and an algorithm for identifying inputs which accept only values of a specific type. Third, HTML forms often have more than one input and hence a naive strategy of enumerating the entire Cartesian product of all possible inputs can result in a very large number of URLs being generated. We present an algorithm that efficiently navigates the search space of possible input combinations to identify only those that generate URLs suitable for inclusion into our web search index. We present an extensive experimental evaluation validating the effectiveness of our algorithms.
Ontology plays an important role in locating Domain-Specific Deep Web contents, therefore, this paper presents a novel framework WFF for efficiently locating Domain-Specific Deep Web databases based on focused crawling and ontology by constructing Web Page Classifier(WPC), Form Structure Classifier(FSC) and Form Content Classifier(FCC) in a hierarchical fashion. Firstly, WPC discovers potentially interesting pages based on ontology-assisted focused crawler. Then, FSC analyzes the interesting pages and determines whether these pages subsume searchable forms based on structural characteristics. Lastly, FCC identifies searchable forms that belong to a given domain in the semantic level, and stores these URLs of Domain- Specific searchable forms to a database. Through a detailed experimental evaluation, WFF framework not only simplifies discovering process, but also effectively determines Domain-Specific databases.
Large portions of the Web are buried behind user-oriented interfaces, which can only be accessed by filling out forms. To make the therein contained information accessible to automatic processing, one of the major hurdles is to navigate to the actual result page. In this paper we present a framework for navigating these so-called Deep Web sites based on the page-keyword-action paradigm: the system fills out forms with provided input parameters and then submits the form. Afterwards it checks if it has already found a result page by looking for pre-specified keyword patterns in the current page. Based on the outcome either further actions to reach a result page are executed or the resulting URL is returned.
Deep Web contents are accessed by queries submitted to Web databases and the returned data records are enwrapped in dynamically generated Web pages (they will be called deep Web pages in this paper). Extracting structured data from deep Web pages is a challenging problem due to the underlying intricate structures of such pages. Until now, a large number of techniques have been proposed to address this problem, but all of them have inherent limitations because they are Web-page-programming-language-dependent. As the popular two-dimensional media, the contents on Web pages are always displayed regularly for users to browse. This motivates us to seek a different way for deep Web data extraction to overcome the limitations of previous works by utilizing some interesting common visual features on the deep Web pages. In this paper, a novel vision-based approach that is Web-page-programming-language-independent is proposed. This approach primarily utilizes the visual features on the deep Web pages to implement deep Web data extraction, including data record extraction and data item extraction. We also propose a new evaluation measure revision to capture the amount of human effort needed to produce perfect extraction. Our experiments on a large set of Web databases show that the proposed vision-based approach is highly effective for deep Web data extraction.
Recently, there has been increased interest in the retrieval and integration of hidden-Web data with a view to leverage high-quality information available in online databases. Although previous works have addressed many aspects of the actual integration, including matching form schemata and automatically filling out forms, the problem of locating relevant data sources has been largely overlooked. Given the dynamic nature of the Web, where data sources are constantly changing, it is crucial to automatically discover these resources. However, considering the number of documents on the Web (Google already indexes over 8 billion documents), automatically finding tens, hundreds or even thousands of forms that are relevant to the integration task is really like looking for a few needles in a haystack. Besides, since the vocabulary and structure of forms for a given domain are unknown until the forms are actually found, it is hard to define exactly what to look for. We propose a new crawling strategy to automatically locate hidden-Web databases which aims to achieve a balance between the two conflicting requirements of this problem: the need to perform a broad search while at the same time avoiding the need to crawl a large number of irrelevant pages. The proposed strategy does that by focusing the crawl on a given topic; by judiciously choosing links to follow within a topic that are more likely to lead to pages that contain forms; and by employing appropriate stopping criteria. We describe the algorithms underlying this strategy and an experimental evaluation which shows that our approach is both effective and efficient, leading to larger numbers of forms retrieved as a function of the number of pages visited than other crawlers.
The contents of many valuable web-accessible databases are only accessible through search interfaces and are hence invisible to traditional web "crawlers." Recent studies have estimated the size of this "hidden web" to be 500 billion pages, while the size of the "crawlable" web is only an estimated two billion pages. Recently, commercial web sites have started to manually organize web-accessible databases into Yahoo!-like hierarchical classification schemes. In this paper, we introduce a method for automating this classification process by using a small number of query probes. To classify a database, our algorithm does not retrieve or inspect any documents or pages from the database, but rather just exploits the number of matches that each query probe generates at the database in question. We have conducted an extensive experimental evaluation of our technique over collections of real documents, including over one hundred web-accessible databases. Our experiments show that our system has low overhead and achieves high classification accuracy across a variety of databases. 1.
Deep web refers to the hidden part of the Web that remains unavailable for standard Web crawlers. To obtain the content of deep web is challenging and has been acknowledged as a significant gap in the coverage of search engines. While deep web crawling has received more attentions recently, current approaches still have the simplified and empirical limitations. Therefore, a novel deep web crawling approach is proposed based on query harvest model. The approach firstly samples the web database and uses the sampling database to select multiple kinds of features to automatically construct the training set, which avoids handful labeling. Then, it learns a query harvest model from the training set. Finally, it uses the model to select the most promising query to submit to the web database in every crawling round until reaching the terminal condition. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can achieve high coverage of Web database. Meanwhile, the query harvest model can be effectively used to crawl other Web databases in the same domain. 1553-9105/
Interfaces of web information systems are highly heterogeneous. Additionally to schema heterogeneity they dier at the presentation layer. Web interface wrappers need to understand these interfaces in order to enable interoperation among web information systems. In contrast to the general scenario it has been observed that inside of application domains (e.g. air travel) hetergeneity is limited. More in detail web interfaces share a limited common vocabulary and use a small set of layout variants. Thus we propose the existence of web interface patterns which are characterized by these two aspects: the used vocabulary on the one hand and the common layout of pages on the other. These patterns can be derived from a domain model which is structured into an ontological model and a layout model. The paper introduces metamodels for ontological and layout models and describes a model driven approach to generate patterns from a sample set of web interfaces. We use a clustering algorithm to identify correspondences between model instances. This pattern approach allows for the generation of wrappers of deep web sources of a specific domain.
With the increasing number of e-commerce sites, how to get a quick search about the information you want from thousands of e-commerce networks is becoming an urgent problem. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem, first, domain knowledge is established according to the e-commerce field, then we build a deep web information retrieval system based on e-commerce to help users find the goods they want quickly from different e-commerce sites, this system is established by deep web interface extraction, interface integration and interface AutoFill technology.
Due to the large volume of the Web information and relatively high speed of information update, the coverage and quality of the retrieved pages by modern search engines is comparatively small. Given the volume of the Web and its frequency of content change, the coverage and quality of pages retrieved by modern search engines is relatively small since they crawl only hypertext links ignoring the search forms which are the entry points for accessing deep web content where two-thirds of information is resides. In this paper an algorithm has been designed to enable topical crawlers to access hidden web content by using domain based ontology to determine the forms' relevance to the domain. In this work scientific research publications domain has been considered. Experimental results show that proposed approach is better as compared to keyword based crawlers in terms of both relevancy and completeness.
Web information access today primarily relies on search engines. Current search engines cannot make index to the pages which are generated automatically by the back -- end databases called invisible web or deep web. The information is hidden behind HTML forms and is only available in response to user's request. In this paper a system based on domain and keyword specific information extraction is described.
Local search engines allow geographically constrained searching of businesses and their products or services. Some of the local search engines use crawlers for indexing Web page contents. These crawlers mostly index Web pages that are accessible through hyperlinks and which include desirable location information. It is extremely important for local search engines to also crawl additional high-quality "local" content (e.g., user reviews) that is available in the Deep Web. Much of this content is hidden behind search forms and is in the form of structured data, which is increasing very rapidly. In this paper, we present our experiences in crawling and extracting a wide variety of local structured data from large number of Deep Web resources. We discuss the challenges in crawling such sources and based on our experience we offer some effective principles to address them. Our experimental results on several Deep Web sources with local content show that the techniques discussed are highly effective.
We present the design of Dynabot, a guided Deep Web discovery system. Dynabot's modular architecture supports focused crawling of the Deep Web with an emphasis on matching, probing, and ranking discovered sources using two key components: service class descriptions and source-biased analysis. We describe the overall architecture of Dynabot and discuss how these components support effective exploitation of the massive Deep Web data available.
The Hidden Web, the part of the Web that remains unavailable for standard crawlers, has become an important research topic during recent years. Its size is estimated to 400 to 500 times larger than that of the publicly indexable Web (PIW). Furthermore, the information on the hidden Web is assumed to be more structured, because it is usually stored in databases. In this paper, we describe a crawler which starting from the PIW finds entry points into the hidden Web. The crawler is domain-specific and is initialized with pre-classified documents and relevant keywords. We describe our approach to the automatic identification of Hidden Web resources among encountered HTML forms. We conduct a series of experiments using the top-level categories in the Google directory and report our analysis of the discovered Hidden Web resources.
Current-day crawlers retrieve content only from the publicly indexable Web, i.e., the set of web pages reachable purely by following hypertext links, ignoring search forms and pages that require authorization or prior registration.
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