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Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web
by Sergey Brin.
"We demonstrate a technique for extracting relations from the WWW based on the duality of patterns and relations. We experiment with it by extracting a relations of books. WebDB Workshop at EDBT '98 (postscript)."
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