Tables are a universal idiom to present relational data. Billions of tables on Web pages express entity references, attributes and relationships. This representation of relational...
The World-Wide Web consists not only of a huge number of unstructured texts, but also a vast amount of valuable structured data. Web tables [2] are a typical type of structured in...
Cindy Xide Lin, Bo Zhao, Tim Weninger, Jiawei Han,...
The next wave in search technology will be driven by the identification, extraction, and exploitation of real-world entities represented in unstructured textual sources. Search sy...
The huge amount of the available information in the Web creates the need of effective information extraction systems that are able to produce metadata that satisfy user's inf...
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...