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From Tessellations to Table Interpretation

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From Tessellations to Table Interpretation
The extraction of the relations of nested table headers to content cells is automated with a view to constructing narrow domain ontologies of semistructured web data. A taxonomy of tessellations for displaying tabular data is developed. X-Y tessellations that can be obtained by a divide-and-conquer method are asymptotically only an infinitesimal fraction of all partitions of a rectangle into rectangles. Admissible tessellations are the even smaller subset of all partitions that correspond to the structures of published tables and that contain only rectangles produced by successive guillotine cuts. Many of these can be processed automatically. Their structures can be conveniently represented by X-Y trees, which facilitate relating hierarchical row and column headings to content cells. A formal grammar is proposed for characterizing the X-Y trees of layout-equivalent admissible tessellations. Algorithms are presented for transforming a tessellation into an X-Y tree and hence into multidi...
Ramana C. Jandhyala, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, Geo
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where MKM
Authors Ramana C. Jandhyala, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, George Nagy, Raghav K. Padmanabhan, Sharad C. Seth, William Silversmith
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