Authors: Lawrence V. Saxton, Miao Liu, Tao Guan
Tags: 1998, conceptual modeling
With the increasing importance of the World Wide Web as an information repository, how to locate documents of interest becomes more and more significant. The current practice is to send keywords to search engines. However, these search engines lack the capability to take the structure of the Web into consideration. We thus present a novel query language, NetQL and its implementation, for accessing the World Wide Web. Rather than working on global text-full search, NetQL is designed for local structure-based queries. It not only exploits the topology of web pages given by hyperlinks, but also supports queries involving information inside pages. A novel approach to extract information from web pages is presented. In addition, the methods to control the complexity of query processing are also addressed in this paper.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-49524-6_9
