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Lightweight RESTful Web Services have become more popular and widespread in recent Web application development, thereby dominating the unwieldy SOAP Web Services. However, finding RESTful services on the Web is still unsolved and challenging problem, and it is beyond the scope of current approaches on SOAP Web Service retrieval that rely on formal descriptions. In this paper we present a method for Web scale automatic RESTful Web Service identification and data extraction from HTML pages describing services. This paper also describes first complete and extensive RESTful Web Service test collection that can be used for many benchmarks and make research results comparable. Presented evaluation results prove the effectiveness of presented method.
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Czyszczoń, A., Zgrzywa, A. (2014). Automatic RESTful Web Service Identification and Information Extraction. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 431. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07941-7_32
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