Experiences with Content Extraction from the Web
Mira Dontcheva, Sharon S.J. Lin, Steven M. Drucker, David Salesin, Michael F. Cohen · 2008
We present the results of a ten-week field study that explored the use of automatic Web tools for collecting and organizing Web content in the context of users ’ personal tasks. Our findings show that people welcome automatic gathering of structured information, such as job or rental listings, and are eager to use rich visualizations and displays of content they find on the Web. We also found that users collect a variety of Web content including a large amount of unstructured information and are interested in using automation not just for longterm content intensive tasks but also for short-lived transient tasks. Finally, we present a first exploration of an online collaborative repository of user-defined semantic content. Our study participants used this repository and modified the collaborative content to accomplish tasks. ACM Classification H5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]: