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The internet offers a massive repository of unstructured information, but it's a significant challenge to convert this into a structured format. At Pinterest, the ability to accurately extract structured product data from e-commerce…

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Any network studied in the literature is inevitably just a sampled representative of its real-world analogue. Additionally, network sampling is lately often applied to large networks to allow for their faster and more efficient analysis.…

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The abundant semi-structured data on the Web, such as HTML-based tables and lists, provide commercial search engines a rich information source for question answering (QA). Different from plain text passages in Web documents, Web tables and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xingyao Zhang , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Ming Gong , Lijie Wen , Daxin Jiang

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

We propose a framework for evaluating structured generative search summaries that are placed atop organic web search results. A structured summary, generated by a large language model, typically consists of an overview, several sections…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tetsuya Sakai , Jina Lee , Hanpei Fang , Young-In Song

Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks, and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques and models to help us understand or predict the behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman

The increasing adoption of econometric and machine-learning approaches by empirical researchers has led to a widespread use of one data collection method: web scraping. Web scraping refers to the use of automated computer programs to access…

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The Web graph is a giant social network whose properties have been measured and modeled extensively in recent years. Most such studies concentrate on the graph structure alone, and do not consider textual properties of the nodes.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Soumen Chakrabarti , Mukul M. Joshi , Kunal Punera , David M. Pennock

We present the design of a structured search engine which returns a multi-column table in response to a query consisting of keywords describing each of its columns. We answer such queries by exploiting the millions of tables on the Web…

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Most real systems consist of a large number of interacting, multi-typed components, while most contemporary researches model them as homogeneous networks, without distinguishing different types of objects and links in the networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Chuan Shi , Yitong Li , Jiawei Zhang , Yizhou Sun , Philip S. Yu

With the continuous development of NoSQL databases, more and more developers choose to use semi-structured data for development and data management, which puts forward requirements for schema management of semi-structured data stored in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Panpan Li , Yikun Gong , Chen Wang

Collections of research article data harvested from the web have become common recently since they are important resources for experimenting on tasks such as named entity recognition, text summarization, or keyword generation. In fact,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Erion Çano , Benjamin Roth

This paper presents an opinion on the potential of using large language models to query on both unstructured and structured data. It also outlines some research challenges related to the topic of building question-answering systems for both…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Wang-Chiew Tan

Since time immemorial, people have been looking for ways to organize scientific knowledge into some systems to facilitate search and discovery of new ideas. The problem was partially solved in the pre-Internet era using library…

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The emergence and popularization of online social networks suddenly made available a large amount of data from social organization, interaction and human behavior. All this information opens new perspectives and challenges to the study of…

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Driven by growing interest in the sciences, industry, and among the broader public, a large number of empirical studies have been conducted in recent years of the structure of networks ranging from the internet and the world wide web to…

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Understanding emerging areas of a multidisciplinary research field is crucial for researchers,policymakers and other stakeholders. For them a knowledge structure based on longitudinal bibliographic data can be an effective instrument. But…

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Web search is an essential way for humans to obtain information, but it's still a great challenge for machines to understand the contents of web pages. In this paper, we introduce the task of structural reading comprehension (SRC) on web.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingyu Chen , Zihan Zhao , Lu Chen , Danyang Zhang , Jiabao Ji , Ao Luo , Yuxuan Xiong , Kai Yu

Search engines are a combination of hardware and computer software supplied by a particular company through the website which has been determined. Search engines collect information from the web through bots or web crawlers that crawls the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Ahmad Josi , Leon Andretti Abdillah , Suryayusra

e-Research is a rapidly growing research area, both in terms of publications and in terms of funding. In this article we argue that it is necessary to reconceptualize the ways in which we seek to measure and understand e-Research by…

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