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We present a generic framework to make wrapper induction algorithms tolerant to noise in the training data. This enables us to learn wrappers in a completely unsupervised manner from automatically and cheaply obtained noisy training data,…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Nilesh Dalvi , Ravi Kumar , Mohamed Soliman

As the amount of data on the World Wide Web continues to grow exponentially, access to semantically structured information remains limited. The Semantic Web has emerged as a solution to enhance the machine-readability of data, making it…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Muhammad Zohaib

The increasing adoption of econometric and machine-learning approaches by empirical researchers has led to a widespread use of one data collection method: web scraping. Web scraping refers to the use of automated computer programs to access…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-07 Jens Foerderer

The production of large-scale political datasets typically demands extracting structured facts from vast piles of unstructured documents or web sources, a task that traditionally relies on expensive human experts and remains prohibitively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yifei Zhu , Songpo Yang , Jiangnan Zhu , Junyan Jiang

The amount of information available on the Web grows at an incredible high rate. Systems and procedures devised to extract these data from Web sources already exist, and different approaches and techniques have been investigated during the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Emilio Ferrara , Robert Baumgartner

Information distributed through the Web keeps growing faster day by day, and for this reason, several techniques for extracting Web data have been suggested during last years. Often, extraction tasks are performed through so called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Emilio Ferrara , Robert Baumgartner

Search engines are a combination of hardware and computer software supplied by a particular company through the website which has been determined. Search engines collect information from the web through bots or web crawlers that crawls the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Ahmad Josi , Leon Andretti Abdillah , Suryayusra

Recent advancements in GUI agents have significantly expanded their ability to interpret natural language commands to manage software interfaces. However, acquiring GUI data remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often involve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiangwu Guo , Difei Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable advances in automated task-solving with multi-agent systems. However, most existing LLM-based multi-agent approaches rely on predefined agents to handle simple tasks, limiting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Guangyao Chen , Siwei Dong , Yu Shu , Ge Zhang , Jaward Sesay , Börje F. Karlsson , Jie Fu , Yemin Shi

As large language models (LLMs) become more specialized, we envision a future where millions of expert LLMs exist, each trained on proprietary data and excelling in specific domains. In such a system, answering a query requires selecting a…

Large Language Models (LLM) based agents have shown promise in autonomously completing tasks across various domains, e.g., robotics, games, and web navigation. However, these agents typically require elaborate design and expert prompts to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minghao Chen , Yihang Li , Yanting Yang , Shiyu Yu , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He

Web agents, which couple language models with browsing and tool-use capabilities, show promise as open web assistants. Yet progress is increasingly limited by the lack of scalable, process-level supervision. Existing benchmarks are largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tenghao Huang , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Yilun Zhou , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May , Chien-Sheng Wu

This paper presents the design and implementation of a user-friendly, automated web application that simplifies and optimizes the web scraping process for non-technical users. The application breaks down the complex task of web scraping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alok Dutta , Nilanjana Roy , Rhythm Sen , Sougata Dutta , Prabhat Das

Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

The advent of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents has revolutionized artificial intelligence by enabling solutions to complex, open-ended tasks through web-based information-seeking (IS) capabilities. The scarcity of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhengwei Tao , Jialong Wu , Wenbiao Yin , Junkai Zhang , Baixuan Li , Haiyang Shen , Kuan Li , Liwen Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

With the exponential increase in online scientific literature, identifying reliable domain-specific data has become increasingly important but also very challenging. Manual data collection and filtering for domain-specific scientific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nikita Gautam , Doina Caragea , Ignacio Ciampitti , Federico Gomez

Tool use has turned large language models (LLMs) into powerful agents that can perform complex multi-step tasks by dynamically utilising external software components. However, these tools must be implemented in advance by human developers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Georg Wölflein , Dyke Ferber , Daniel Truhn , Ognjen Arandjelović , Jakob Nikolas Kather

Recent advances in deep-research systems have demonstrated the potential for AI agents to autonomously discover and synthesize knowledge from external sources. In this paper, we introduce WebResearcher, a novel framework for building such…

Web automation employs intelligent agents to execute high-level tasks by mimicking human interactions with web interfaces. Despite the capabilities of recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based web agents, navigating complex, real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiayuan Zhang , Kaiquan Chen , Zhihao Lu , Enshen Zhou , Qian Yu , Jing Zhang

Website hacking is a frequent attack type used by malicious actors to obtain confidential information, modify the integrity of web pages or make websites unavailable. The tools used by attackers are becoming more and more automated and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Laszlo Erdodi , Fabio Massimo Zennaro