Similarity-based web clip matching

The research areas of extraction and integration of web data aim at delivery of tools and methods to extract pieces of information from third-party web sites and then to integrate them into profiled, domain-specific, custom web pages. Existing solutions rely on specialized APIs or XPath querying tools and are therefore not easily accessible to non technical end users. In this paper we describe our new comprehensive, non-XPath integration platform which allows end users to extract web page fragments using a simple query-by-example approach and then to combine these fragments into custom, integrated web pages. We focus on our two novel similarity-based web clip matching algorithms: Attribute Weights Tree Matching and Edit Distance Tree Matching.