Automatic hidden-web table interpretation, conceptualization, and semantic annotation

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 683-703

  Tao, Cui ^a   Embley, David W ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic semantic annotation; Automatic table interpretation; Ontology generation; Web of data

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC ANNOTATION; AUTOMATIC TABLE INTERPRETATION; DATA VALUES; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; F MEASURES; HIDDEN WEBS; INFORMATION EXTRACTIONS; ONTOLOGY GENERATION; PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; QUERY ENGINES; SEMI-STRUCTURED DATUM; TABLE STRUCTURES; WEB OF DATA; WEB PAGES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION THEORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 67349276460     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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