COMBINING INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND DATA INTEGRATION IN THE ESTEST SYSTEM

Dean Williams, Alexandra Poulovassilis

2006

Abstract

We describe an approach which builds on techniques from Data Integration and Information Extraction in order to make better use of the unstructured data found in application domains such as the Semantic Web which require the integration of information from structured data sources, ontologies and text. We describe the design and implementation of the ESTEST system which integrates available structured and semi-structured data sources into a virtual global schema which is used to partially configure an information extraction process. The information extracted from the text is merged with this virtual global database and is available for query processing over the entire integrated resource. As a result of this semantic integration, new queries can now be answered which would not be possible from the structured and semi-structured data alone. We give some experimental results from the ESTEST system in use.

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Williams D. and Poulovassilis A. (2006). COMBINING INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND DATA INTEGRATION IN THE ESTEST SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 13-21. DOI: 10.5220/0001315500130021

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft06,
author={Dean Williams and Alexandra Poulovassilis},
title={COMBINING INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND DATA INTEGRATION IN THE ESTEST SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={13-21},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001315500130021},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - COMBINING INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND DATA INTEGRATION IN THE ESTEST SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - Williams D.
AU - Poulovassilis A.
PY - 2006
SP - 13
EP - 21
DO - 10.5220/0001315500130021