The BANKS system enables keyword-based search on databases, together with data and schema browsing. BANKS enables users to extract information in a simple manner without any knowl...
B. Aditya, Gaurav Bhalotia, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ar...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
A large fraction of the useful web comprises of specification documents that largely consist of hattribute name, numeric valuei pairs embedded in text. Examples include product in...
How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...