Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1078-1089

  Elmeleegy, Hazem ^a   Madhavan, Jayant ^b   Halevy, Alon ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEBSITES;

DELIMITERS; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; HTML TABLES; MISSING INFORMATION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RELATIONAL TABLES;

WEB CRAWLER;

EID: 77954301186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687749     Document Type: Article

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