Extraction of conference data from the web

• Cássio Alan Garcia Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
• Viviane P. Moreira Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbbd.2017.171356

Abstract

Choosing the most suitable conference to submit a paper is a task that depends on a number of factors including: (i) the topic of the paper needs to be among the topics of interest of the conference; (ii) submission deadlines need to be compatible with the necessary time for paper writing; and (iii) the quality or impact of the conference. These factors allied to the existence of thousands of conferences, make the search of the right event very time consuming, especially when researching in a new area. Intending to help researchers finding conferences, this paper presents a method developed to retrieve and extract data from conferences web sites. Our method combines the identification of conference URL and deadline extraction. The retrieved data is stored in a database to be searched with an online tool. The paper also reports on experiments that evaluate the quality of the extracted data, focusing on the deadlines.

Keywords: Data extraction, URL identification, Qualis Table

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