Web-scale extension of RDF knowledge bases from templated websites

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Authors

  • Lorenz Bühmann
  • Ricardo Usbeck
  • Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
  • Muhammad Saleem
  • Andreas Both
  • Valter Crescenzi
  • Paolo Merialdo
  • Disheng Qiu

Only a small fraction of the information on the Web is represented as Linked Data. This lack of coverage is partly due to the paradigms followed so far to extract Linked Data.While converting structured data to RDF is well supported by tools, most approaches to extract RDF from semi-structured data rely on extraction methods based on ad-hoc solutions. In this paper, we present a holistic and open-source framework for the extraction of RDF from templated websites. We discuss the architecture of the framework and the initial implementation of each of its components. In particular, we present a novel wrapper induction technique that does not require any human supervision to detect wrappers for web sites. Our framework also includes a consistency layer with which the data extracted by the wrappers can be checked for logical consistency. We evaluate the initial version of REX on three different datasets. Our results clearly show the potential of using templated Web pages to extend the Linked Data Cloud. Moreover, our results indicate the weaknesses of our current implementations and how they can be extended.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe SemanticWeb - ISWC 2014 - 13th International SemanticWeb Conference, Proceedings
EditorsTania Tudorache, Craig Knoblock, Paul Groth, Carole Goble, Chris Welty, Abraham Bernstein, Peter Mika, Denny Vrandečić, Natasha Noy, Krzysztof Janowicz
Number of pages16
PublisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
Publication date2014
Pages66-81
ISBN (print)978-3-319-11963-2
ISBN (electronic)978-3-319-11964-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014 - Riva del Garda, Italy
Duration: 19.10.201423.10.2014
Conference number: 13
https://search.worldcat.org/de/title/semantic-web-iswc-2014-13th-international-semantic-web-conference-riva-del-garda-italy-october-19-23-2014-proceedings-part-i/oclc/941304230

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