Title :
Re-forming the internet with its end users
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Today, tools like Greasemonkey and Chickenfoot already provide the raw technology for modifying a Website in the end user´s Web browser instead of the Webmaster´s Web server by injecting it with a special browser-side script. The problem, however, is that it takes a programmer to enhance a Website with such a script. The paper presents reform, an interactive machine learning technique designed for novice end users, allowing them to scrape a variety of data layouts by example, without seeing the underlying Webpage representation.
Keywords :
Web sites; interactive systems; learning (artificial intelligence); online front-ends; Internet; Web browser; Webmaster; Website; browser-side script; end users; interactive machine learning technique; reform; Broadcasting; Collaboration; Communications technology; Data mining; Displays; HTML; Internet; Joining processes; Programming profession; Web page design;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2009. VL/HCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Corvallis, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4876-0
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295243