Extraction and integration of partially overlapping web sources

Autor: Paolo Merialdo, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Papotti, Mirko Bronzi
Přispěvatelé: Bronzi, M, Crescenzi, Valter, Merialdo, Paolo, Papotti, P.
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Scopus-Elsevier
ISSN: 2150-8097
Popis: We present an unsupervised approach for harvesting the data exposed by a set of structured and partially overlapping data-intensive web sources. Our proposal comes within a formal framework tackling two problems: the data extraction problem, to generate extraction rules based on the input websites, and the data integration problem, to integrate the extracted data in a unified schema. We introduce an original algorithm, WEIR, to solve the stated problems and formally prove its correctness. WEIR leverages the overlapping data among sources to make better decisions both in the data extraction (by pruning rules that do not lead to redundant information) and in the data integration (by reflecting local properties of a source over the mediated schema). Along the way, we characterize the amount of redundancy needed by our algorithm to produce a solution, and present experimental results to show the benefits of our approach with respect to existing solutions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE