The WebCAT framework automatic generation of meta-data for Web resources

Automated methods for resource annotation are a clear necessity, as the success of the semantic Web depends on the availability of Web resources with meta data conforming to known standards and ontologies. This paper describes the WebCAT framework for automatically generating RDF descriptions of Web pages. We present a general view of the system and the algorithms involved, giving an emphasis to typical issues in processing Web data.

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