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A toolkit to facilitate the querying and integration of tabular data from semistructured documents

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Abstract

The advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) has meant there is a growing need to link information held in databases and files with information held in other types of structure [2]. This poster presents a toolkit which enables information held in tables within documents to be linked with data held in conventional databases. The toolkit addresses the problems of:-

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    extracting tabular data from various types of document e.g. semi-structured text [4], HTML and spreadsheets

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    providing a standard interface to these tables via a standard query language

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    extracting useful table meta-data from the table and accompanying text.

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  1. Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources. Ashish, N & Knoblock, C. University of Southern California.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

    L. E. Hodge, W. A. Gray & N. J. Fiddian

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  1. L. E. Hodge
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Suzanne M. Embury Nicholas J. Fiddian W. Alex Gray Andrew C. Jones

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Hodge, L.E., Gray, W.A., Fiddian, N.J. (1998). A toolkit to facilitate the querying and integration of tabular data from semistructured documents. In: Embury, S.M., Fiddian, N.J., Gray, W.A., Jones, A.C. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053482

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