How the Minotaur Turned into Ariadne: Ontologies in Web Data Extraction

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Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Xiaonan Guo, Christian Schallhart, Andrew Jon Sellers, Cheng Wang

Published: 01 Jan 2011, Last Modified: 04 Oct 2025ICWE 2011EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Humans require automated support to profit from the wealth of data nowadays available on the web. To that end, the linked open data initiative and others have been asking data providers to publish structured, semantically annotated data. Small data providers, such as most UK real-estate agencies, however, are overburdened with this task—often just starting to move from simple, table- or list-like directories to web applications with rich interfaces.