Putting Web Tables into Context

Katrin Braunschweig, Maik Thiele, Elvis Koci, Wolfgang Lehner

2016

Abstract

Web tables are a valuable source of information used in many application areas. However, to exploit Web tables it is necessary to understand their content and intention which is impeded by their ambiguous semantics and inconsistencies. Therefore, additional context information, e.g. text in which the tables are embedded, is needed to support the table understanding process. In this paper, we propose a novel contextualization approach that 1) splits the table context in topically coherent paragraphs, 2) provides a similarity measure that is able to match each paragraph to the table in question and 3) ranks these paragraphs according to their relevance. Each step is accompanied by an experimental evaluation on real-world data showing that our approach is feasible and effectively identifies the most relevant context for a given Web table.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Braunschweig K., Thiele M., Koci E. and Lehner W. (2016). Putting Web Tables into Context . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-203-5, pages 158-165. DOI: 10.5220/0006034701580165

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir16,
author={Katrin Braunschweig and Maik Thiele and Elvis Koci and Wolfgang Lehner},
title={Putting Web Tables into Context},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={158-165},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006034701580165},
isbn={978-989-758-203-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016)
TI - Putting Web Tables into Context
SN - 978-989-758-203-5
AU - Braunschweig K.
AU - Thiele M.
AU - Koci E.
AU - Lehner W.
PY - 2016
SP - 158
EP - 165
DO - 10.5220/0006034701580165