Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20229
Publication type: Conference paper
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Annotating web tables through knowledge bases : a context-based approach (Best Paper Award)
Authors: Eslahi, Yasamin
Stockinger, Kurt
Bhardwaj, Akansha
Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe
Rosso, Paolo
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013
10.21256/zhaw-20229
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 7th SDS
Conference details: 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science, Lucerne, Switzerland, 26 June 2020
Issue Date: Jun-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution: IEEE
Language: English
Subjects: Web table annotation; Knowledge base; Embeddings; Data integration
Subject (DDC): 005: Computer programming, programs and data
006: Special computer methods
Abstract: The Web has a collection of over 150 million tables, which as a whole represents an invaluable source of semi-structured knowledge. Such tables are commonly referred to as Web tables, and are considerably easier to leverage in automated processes than completely unstructured, free-format text. Understanding the semantics of Web tables is important since they are used in various applications like knowledge base augmentation, information retrieval or natural language interfaces for databases. The task of understanding the semantics of a given Web table is known as Web table annotation. In recent years, it has been tackled through methods where the table is enriched using existing knowledge bases containing valuable information on the domain at hand, its entities and their mutual relationships. In this paper, we present two novel and unsupervised Web table annotation methods, which leverage the context of the tables to better capture their semantics. Our first method is lookup-based and exploits text similarity to find reference entities in the knowledge base. The second method uses distributional vector representations – a.k.a. embeddings – of the Web tables to elicit their context and disambiguate their semantics. Experiments show that our proposed approach outperforms the state of the art in Web table annotation by up to 18%. Another contribution of this work is a manually corrected version of one of the popular gold standard datasets, Limaye, with annotations from DBpedia. Our dataset and code are publicly available.
Further description: Best Paper Award ​© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20229
Fulltext version: Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
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Eslahi, Y., Stockinger, K., Bhardwaj, A., Cudré-Mauroux, P., & Rosso, P. (2020, June). Annotating web tables through knowledge bases : a context-based approach (Best Paper Award). Proceedings of the 7th SDS. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013
Eslahi, Y. et al. (2020) ‘Annotating web tables through knowledge bases : a context-based approach (Best Paper Award)’, in Proceedings of the 7th SDS. IEEE. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013.
Y. Eslahi, K. Stockinger, A. Bhardwaj, P. Cudré-Mauroux, and P. Rosso, “Annotating web tables through knowledge bases : a context-based approach (Best Paper Award),” in Proceedings of the 7th SDS, Jun. 2020. doi: 10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013.
ESLAHI, Yasamin, Kurt STOCKINGER, Akansha BHARDWAJ, Philippe CUDRÉ-MAUROUX und Paolo ROSSO, 2020. Annotating web tables through knowledge bases : a context-based approach (Best Paper Award). In: Proceedings of the 7th SDS. Conference paper. IEEE. Juni 2020
Eslahi, Yasamin, Kurt Stockinger, Akansha Bhardwaj, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, and Paolo Rosso. 2020. “Annotating Web Tables through Knowledge Bases : A Context-Based Approach (Best Paper Award).” Conference paper. In Proceedings of the 7th SDS. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013.
Eslahi, Yasamin, et al. “Annotating Web Tables through Knowledge Bases : A Context-Based Approach (Best Paper Award).” Proceedings of the 7th SDS, IEEE, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00013.


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