XWRAPComposer: A Multi-Page Data Extraction Service

Ling Liu, Jianjun Zhang, Wei Han, Carlton Pu, James Caverlee, Sungkeun Park, Terence Critchlow, David Buttler and Matthew Coleman
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Ling Liu: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jianjun Zhang: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Wei Han: IBM Research, Almaden Research Center, USA
Carlton Pu: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
James Caverlee: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Sungkeun Park: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Terence Critchlow: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
David Buttler: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Matthew Coleman: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), 2006, vol. 3, issue 2, 33-60

Abstract: We present a service-oriented architecture and a set of techniques for developing wrapper code generators, including the methodology of designing an effective wrapper program construction facility and a concrete implementation, called XWRAPComposer. Our wrapper generation framework has two unique design goals. First, we explicitly separate tasks of building wrappers that are specific to a Web service from the tasks that are repetitive for any service, thus the code can be generated as a wrapper library component and reused automatically by the wrapper generator system. Second, we use inductive learning algorithms that derive information flow and data extraction patterns by reasoning about sample pages or sample specifications. More importantly, we design a declarative rule-based script language for multi-page information extraction, encouraging a clean separation of the information extraction semantics from the information flow control and execution logic of wrapper programs. We implement these design principles with the development of the XWRAPComposer toolkit, which can semi-automatically generate WSDL-enabled wrapper programs. We illustrate the problems and challenges of multi-page data extraction in the context of bioinformatics applications and evaluate the design and development of XWRAPComposer through our experiences of integrating various BLAST services.

Date: 2006
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