Paper Review: WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web

Title and Author of Paper WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web. M.J. Cafarella et al. Summary WebTables is a project to extract and process HTML tables from Google’s serach index. It attempts to answer two questions: what are some effective techniques for searching structured data at search engine scale, and what can be derived from analyzing a large corpus of HTML tables? Web documents often contain structured and relational data embedded in HTML tables....

March 29, 2017 · 4 min · Kevin Sookocheff