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Turning the current Web into a Semantic Web requires automatic approaches for annotation of existing data since manual approaches will not scale in general. We here present an approach for automatic generation of F-Logic frames out of tables which subsequently supports the automatic population of ontologies from table-like structures. The approach consists of a methodology, an accompanying implementation and a thorough evaluation. It is based on a grounded cognitive table model which is stepwise instantiated by our methodology.
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Pivk, A., Cimiano, P., Sure, Y. (2004). From Tables to Frames. In: McIlraith, S.A., Plexousakis, D., van Harmelen, F. (eds) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004. ISWC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_13
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