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The Mannheim Search Join Engine


Lehmberg, Oliver ; Ritze, Dominique ; Ristoski, Petar ; Meusel, Robert ; Paulheim, Heiko ; Bizer, Christian



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2015.05.001
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Additional URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2870130
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2015
The title of a journal, publication series: Web Semantics
Volume: 35
Issue number: 3
Page range: 159-166
Place of publication: Amsterdam [u.a.]
Publishing house: Elsevier
ISSN: 1570-8268
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Wirtschaftsinformatik V (Bizer)
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Web Data Mining (Juniorprofessur) (Paulheim 2013-2017)
Subject: 004 Computer science, internet
Keywords (English): Table extension ; Data search ; Search Joins ; Web tables ; Microdata ; Linked data
Abstract: A Search Join is a join operation which extends a user-provided table with additional attributes based on a large corpus of heterogeneous data originating from the Web or corporate intranets. Search Joins are useful within a wide range of application scenarios: Imagine you are an analyst having a local table describing companies and you want to extend this table with attributes containing the headquarters, turnover, and revenue of each company. Or imagine you are a film enthusiast and want to extend a table describing films with attributes like director, genre, and release date of each film. This article presents the Mannheim Search Join Engine which automatically performs such table extension operations based on a large corpus of Web data. Given a local table, the Mannheim Search Join Engine searches the corpus for additional data describing the entities contained in the input table. The discovered data are joined with the local table and are consolidated using schema matching and data fusion techniques. As a result, the user is presented with an extended table and given the opportunity to examine the provenance of the added data. We evaluate the Mannheim Search Join Engine using heterogeneous data originating from over one million different websites. The data corpus consists of HTML tables, as well as Linked Data and Microdata annotations which are converted into tabular form. Our experiments show that the Mannheim Search Join Engine achieves a coverage close to 100% and a precision of around 90% for the tasks of extending tables describing cities, companies, countries, drugs, books, films, and songs.

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Lehmberg, Oliver ; Ritze, Dominique ; Ristoski, Petar ; Meusel, Robert ; Paulheim, Heiko ORCID: 0000-0003-4386-8195 ; Bizer, Christian ORCID: 0000-0003-2367-0237 (2015) The Mannheim Search Join Engine. Web Semantics Amsterdam [u.a.] 35 3 159-166 [Article]


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