Collective extraction from heterogeneous web lists
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Arun Shankar Iyer, Philip Bohannon, Srujana Merugu · 2011
Automatic extraction of structured records from inconsistently formatted lists on the web is challenging: different lists present disparate sets of attributes with variations in the ordering of attributes; many lists contain additional attributes and noise that can confuse the extraction process; and formatting within a list may be inconsistent due to missing attributes or manual formatting on some sites.