Database Paper Browser

Back to papers

Automatic segmentation of text into structured records

Summary: Automatic segmentation of unformatted text into structured records; datamold learns structure from a small seed set. Extends HMMs with multi-source cues (sequence, length, vocabulary, external dictionary) for robust address extraction; 90% Asian, 99% US accuracy, beating rule-based IE. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3268
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00018815341
Overall Rank
636 | 95.59%
DOI
-

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
112 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00047010908
279 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00029141798
757 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00017062337
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
1,530 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00011483613
1,761 Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios 2005 VLDB 0.00010637364
3,286 Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables 2004 SIGMOD 7.2692403e-05
3,521 Merging the Results of Approximate Match Operations 2004 VLDB 7.0112669e-05
3,745 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 6.7907837e-05
4,137 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.4130238e-05
5,408 Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 5.5238635e-05
5,441 Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach 2013 VLDB 5.5024055e-05
7,394 A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces 2011 VLDB 4.7372157e-05
8,002 A Grammar-based Entity Representation Framework for Data Cleaning 2009 SIGMOD 4.60503e-05
9,429 Database Principles in Information Extraction 2014 PODS 4.3399748e-05
12,238 ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
67 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00061419648
384 NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents. 1998 SIGMOD 0.00024774707
1,131 Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F 1999 VLDB 0.00013766101
2,011 Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents 1999 SIGMOD 9.8032193e-05
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers

Overall Rank Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7,831 The Smallest Extraction Problem 2021 VLDB 4.6372231e-05
5,408 Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 5.5238635e-05
7,913 Mining Quality Phrases from Massive Text Corpora 2015 SIGMOD 4.6139203e-05
586 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001963091
6,527 Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 5.0200332e-05
12,238 ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
2,011 Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents 1999 SIGMOD 9.8032193e-05
11,783 Building Structured Databases of Factual Knowledge from Massive Text Corpora 2017 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
3,286 Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables 2004 SIGMOD 7.2692403e-05