%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Brin, Sergey
%D 1999
%F ilprints:421
%I Stanford InfoLab
%T Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web.
%U http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/421/
%X The World Wide Web is a vast resource for information. At the same time it is extremely distributed. A particular type of data such as restaurant lists may be scattered across thousands of independent information sources in many different formats. In this paper, we consider the problem of extracting a relation for such a data type from all of these sources automatically. We present a technique which exploits the duality between sets of patterns and relations to grow the target relation starting from a small sample. To test our technique we use it to extract a relation of (author, title) pairs from the World Wide Web.
%Z Previous number = SIDL-WP-1999-0119