html table structure,Recognition of HTML Table Structure

摘要：

Tables in HTML Web pages have become precious knowledge sources. Therefore it is reasonable and neces-sary to develop an algorithm to extract knowledge from them. For this, we need a system to identify the bound-ary between attributes and values of a table in HTML and transform ta-bles into more understandable attribute-value pairs. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for this purpose. The out-line of the algorithm is that if we find a row(or column) having low similarity with other rows (or columns), it is prob-ably an attribute name row (or column), otherwise value data rows(or columns). The algorithm based on this idea re-sults in 82% accuracy of recognition of lengthways and 78% accuracy of recog-nition of sideways for 300 tables in HTML of Web pages downloaded from the Web.

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