Web data extraction and integration
Number and Type: 181130 VU WS 2010/11
Lecturer: Robert Baumgartner (exercises together with tutor)
Selected Keywords: Information Extraction, Approaches, tools and methods for Wrapper Generation, Web Querying, Data Integration, XML
Preliminary Meeting: Friday 1st of October, 15:30 (s.t.), EI 4 Reithoffer HS
Registration: until 30th of September via TISS (limited participant number). Please de-register in TISS in case you decide not to take the course. ECML students who can not yet register please write me a message to reserve a place for you.
Language: Slides in English, lecture language depending whether non-german speaking students join
Timetable: Selected Fridays 15:30-18:30 (see below for details; two exercise slots)
Procedure: Lecture coupled with exercises and group work
Content:
  • Information Extraction: Setting, History, IE vs. IR
  • Structured Data Extraction and Wrapping
  • XML Transformation and Query Languages
  • Web Wrapper Languages
  • Wrapper Generation Tools
  • Wrappers for Mashups, SOA and BI
  • Inductive Wrapper Generation
  • Automatic Data Extraction / Web Data Mining
  • Supervised Wrapper Generation
  • Deep Web Navigation Approaches
  • Data Extraction from PDF documents
  • Mediation and Integration Approaches
  • Web Data Cleaning
  • Lixto Visual Wrapper and Transformation Server
Fields of Study: This VU is a compulsory course or compulsory elective in some bachelor and master studies, and is furthermore part of the re-designed KfK Semantic Web, and is part of the European Master Programs Computational Logic.

 

Structure of the lecture and slides
Nr.
Session
Topics / Slides
Date

Lecture Time
Lecture Location

Grp A* Exercises
Grp B* Exercises
1st
Preliminary Meeting + Session 1
1.10.
15:30-16:30
-
-
2nd
Session 2
15.10.
15:30-17:30
-
-
3rd
Session 3 + Exercise Evaluation
29.10.
16:30-17:30
15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30
4th
Session 4 + Exercise Evaluation
5.11.
16:30-17:30
15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30

5th
Session 5 + Exercise Evaluation
19.11.
16:30-17:30

15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30
6th
Session 6 + Exercise Evaluation
26.11.
16:30-17:30
15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30
7th
Session 7 + Exercise Evaluation
10.12.
16:30-17:30
15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30
8th
Session 8 + Exercise Evaluation
14.1.
16:30-17:30
15:30-16:20
17:40-18:30
9th/A

Group Presentations
(Project Topics | Agenda (updated))

Groups A*
A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 | A5 | A6

21.1.
-
15:30-18:00
-
9th/B

Groups B*
B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 | B5
28.1.
-
-
15:30-18:00

   
Staff
Robert Baumgartner, last modified on 4/2/2011