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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-014-11-1857</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29098</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval</subject>
          <subject>H.3.4 - Systems and Software</subject>
          <subject>H.3.5 - Online Information Services</subject>
          <subject>H.3.7 - Digital Libraries</subject>
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        <article-title>Structure-Based Crawling in the Hidden Web</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Vidal</surname>
            <given-names>Marcio</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">mvidal@dcc.ufam.edu.br</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Silva</surname>
            <given-names>Altigran S. da</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>De Moura</surname>
            <given-names>Edleno S.</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Cavalcanti</surname>
            <given-names>João M.B.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil</addr-line>
        <institution>Federal University of Amazonas</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Manaus</addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Marcio Vidal (<email xlink:type="simple">mvidal@dcc.ufam.edu.br</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>1857</fpage>
      <lpage>1876</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/1C08FD07-4DC6-52D4-BDC3-535DD31C43EF">1C08FD07-4DC6-52D4-BDC3-535DD31C43EF</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7000342">7000342</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Marcio Vidal, Altigran S. da Silva, Edleno S. De Moura, João M.B. Cavalcanti</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>The number of applications that need to crawl the Web to gather data is growing at an ever increasing pace. In some cases, the criterion to determine what pages must be included in a collection is based on theirs contents; in others, it would be wiser to use a structure-based criterion. In this article, we present a proposal to build structure-based crawlers that just requires a few examples of the pages to be crawled and an entry point to the target web site. Our crawlers can deal with form-based web sites. Contrarily to other proposals, ours does not require a sample database to fill in the forms, and does not require the user to interact heavily. Our experiments prove that our precision is 100% in seventeen real-world web sites, with both static and dynamic content, and that our recall is 95% in the eleven static web sites examined.</p>
      </abstract>
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