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		<rdfs:label><![CDATA[Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables]]></rdfs:label>
		<pub:title><![CDATA[Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables]]></pub:title>
		<pub:publishedOn rdf:datatype="&xsd;dateTime">2011-09-03T00:00:00-05:00</pub:publishedOn>
		<pub:abstract><![CDATA[Vast amounts of information is encoded in structured tables found in
documents, on the Web, and in spreadsheets or databases. Integrating
or searching over this information benefits from understanding its
intended meaning.  Evidence for a table's meaning can be found in its
column headers, cell values, implicit relations between columns,
caption and surrounding text but also requires general and
domain-specific background knowledge.  We represent a table's meaning
by mapping columns to classes in an appropriate ontology, linking cell
values to literal constants, implied measurements, or entities in the
linked data cloud (existing or new) and discovering or and identifying
relations between columns.  We describe techniques grounded in
graphical models and probabilistic reasoning to infer meaning
(semantics) associated with a table. Using background knowledge from
the Linked Open Data cloud, we jointly infer the semantics of column
headers, table cell values (e.g.,strings and numbers) and relations
between columns and represent the inferred meaning as graph of RDF
triples.  We motivate the value of this approach using tables from the
medical domain, discussing some of the challenges presented by these
tables and describing techniques to tackle them.
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		<pub:note><![CDATA[Co-located with VLDB 2011]]></pub:note>
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