Tata AIG General Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Enabling Personal Deep Web Views with Transcendence
1. Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web Jeffrey P. Bigham Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince, and Tyler S. Robison University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Transcendence
39. Transcendence Jeffrey P. Bigham [email_address] www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jbigham/ Thanks to: Mira Dontcheva, UW Turing Center, anonymous reviewers, and our study participants . The End
Transcendence helps make web forms more flexible and enables users to conduct queries that help them find the information they really want more easily from deep web resources. Transcendence is a web browser extension that enables a personal view of the deep web by making web forms more flexible, enabling users to perform queries of interest to them that are not supported by the original interface. . It enables users to enter multiple values for form input fields that may have originally been restricted to one, submits all combinations of form input automatically, and merges these results for easy visualization. It uses unsupervised information extraction to automatically supply inputs, enabling users to partially reconstruct the databases underlying deep web resources, facilitating aggregate queries that were previously impossible. Transcendence is joint work with fellow graduate students, Anna Cavender, Ryan Kaminsky, Craig Prince and Tyler Robison.