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An approach for the retrieval of price information from internet sites is applied to real-world application problems in this paper. The Web Information Retrieval System (WIRS) utilizes Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for its powerful capability to process temporal information. HMM is an extremely flexible tool and has been successfully applied to a wide variety of stochastic modeling tasks. In order to compare the prices and features of products from various web sites, the WIRS extracts prices and descriptions of various products within web pages. The WIRS is evaluated with real-world problems and compared with a conventional method and the result is reported in this paper.
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Kim, TH. et al. (2011). A Web Information Retrieval System. In: Chen, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing and Information Science. ICICIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18134-4_81
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