Towards a global schema for web entities

Popular entities often have thousands of instances on the Web. In this paper, we focus on the case where they are presented in table-like format, namely appearing with their attribute names. It is observed that, on one hand, for the same entity, different web pages often incorporate different attributes; on the other, for the same attribute, different web pages often use different attribute names (labels). Therefore, it is imaginably difficult to produce a global attribute schema for all the web entities of a given entity type based on their web instances, although the global attribute schema is usually highly desired in web entity instances integration and web object extraction. To this end, we propose a novel framework of automatically learning a global attribute schema for all web entities of one specific entity type. Under this framework, an iterative instances extraction procedure is first employed to extract sufficient web entity instances to discover enough attribute labels. Ne...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Conglei Yao, Yongjian Yu, Sicong Shou, Xiaoming Li
• Keywords: Global Attribute Schema, Global Attribute Schemas, Internet Technology, Web Entity Instances, WWW 2008