Web Data Extraction – Tools and Techniques

In order to make effective decisions, the data should be in strand and structured form, but web data are semi-structured or even unstructured, which cannot be manipulated by traditional database techniques, it is imperative to extract web data to port them into databases for further handling. The purpose of Web Information Extraction (IE) in our web mining research support system is to extract a specific portion of web documents useful for a research project. Such techniques if implemented backed with good data mining techniques will prove to be boon for the decision makers.