TY - GEN
T1 - IBEX
T2 - 18th International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB 2015, co-located with ACM SIGMOD
AU - Talaika, Aliaksandr
AU - Biega, Joanna
AU - Amarilli, Antoine
AU - Suchanek, Fabian M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright ©2010 by the Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2015/5/31
Y1 - 2015/5/31
N2 - In this paper we study the prevalence of unique entity identifiers on the Web. These are, e.g., ISBNs (for books), GTINs (for commercial products), DOIs (for documents), email addresses, and others. We show how these identifiers can be harvested systematically from Web pages, and how they can be associated with humanreadable names for the entities at large scale. Starting with a simple extraction of identifiers and names from Web pages, we show how we can use the properties of unique identifiers to filter out noise and clean up the extraction result on the entire corpus. The end result is a database of millions of uniquely identified entities of different types, with an accuracy of 73-96% and a very high coverage compared to existing knowledge bases. We use this database to compute novel statistics on the presence of products, people, and other entities on the Web.
AB - In this paper we study the prevalence of unique entity identifiers on the Web. These are, e.g., ISBNs (for books), GTINs (for commercial products), DOIs (for documents), email addresses, and others. We show how these identifiers can be harvested systematically from Web pages, and how they can be associated with humanreadable names for the entities at large scale. Starting with a simple extraction of identifiers and names from Web pages, we show how we can use the properties of unique identifiers to filter out noise and clean up the extraction result on the entire corpus. The end result is a database of millions of uniquely identified entities of different types, with an accuracy of 73-96% and a very high coverage compared to existing knowledge bases. We use this database to compute novel statistics on the presence of products, people, and other entities on the Web.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84960448651
U2 - 10.1145/2767109.2767116
DO - 10.1145/2767109.2767116
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960448651
T3 - 18th International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB 2015: Freshness, Correctness, Quality of Information and Knowledge on the Web - Proceedings
SP - 13
EP - 19
BT - 18th International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB 2015
A2 - Stoyanovich, Julia
A2 - Suchanek, Fabian M.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 31 May 2015 through 31 May 2015
ER -