Approaches to classification
• Earliest systems use hard-coded wrappers
– Content-focused (E.g., largest table cell)
– Didn’t scale
• Now, multi-class classification using mixed features:
lexical, structural and spatial.
– HTML Path structure
• (Yang et al. 03, Shih and Karger 04)
– Spatial random walk using browser-exposed DOM tree
• Allows precise layout information (Xin and Lee 04)