ENHANCING THE INVISIBLE WEB

Abstract

Abstract. In recent years, a large amount of information has been placed in databases across the globe, and published through dynamically generated Web pages. The evolution of the so-called Invisible (or Hidden) Web constitutes both an opportunity and an issue for Web-based information extractors. This article describes the architecture of an Invisible-Web Extractor, whose primal goal is to enhance the value of the hidden Web data. We consider three main issues of the tool: how to access the Invisible Web information, how to extract information from the gathered data and how to create new knowledge from it. 1