Title extraction from Loosely Structured Data Records

In this paper, we present a novel title extraction method from Loosely Structured Data Records (LSDRs). Firstly, we automatically identify the format of titles and then extract them accordingly. For the Web page whose title is occurred in all the Data Records, we obtain the one in the candidate titles which has the largest length of the "same content" as the accurate title. And for the Web page whose title is occurred before the first Data Record, the candidate title which has the largest length of the "different content" can be considered as the accurate title. Our experiment demonstrates that our automatic algorithm is robust and effective on two databases collected front the Internet.