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: h5e254cf307563b25
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00014373044
Overall Rank: 735 | 95.06%
DOI: 10.1145/375663.375682

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Authors

1. Vinayak Borkar (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
2. Kaustubh Deshmukh (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai; University of Washington)
3. Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{borkar_sigmod01,
        title = {{Automatic segmentation of text into structured records}},
        author = {Borkar, Vinayak and Deshmukh, Kaustubh and Sarawagi, Sunita},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/375663.375682},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375682},
        year = {2001}
}

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95	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034382643
307	Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses	2002	VLDB	0.00021499031
690	Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models	2006	VLDB	0.00014745444
1,337	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00010987014
1,581	Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries	2007	VLDB	0.00010180038
2,580	Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios	2005	VLDB	8.2716518e-05
3,588	Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables	2004	SIGMOD	7.1870903e-05
3,593	Merging the Results of Approximate Match Operations	2004	VLDB	7.183446e-05
3,615	TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment	2015	SIGMOD	7.1591776e-05
4,010	Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction	2010	VLDB	6.8582009e-05
4,531	Database Principles in Information Extraction	2014	PODS	6.558436e-05
5,367	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	6.1598727e-05
5,670	Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction	2011	SIGMOD	6.0445956e-05
7,565	A Probabilistic Approach for Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces	2011	VLDB	5.4953097e-05
8,059	A Grammar-based Entity Representation Framework for Data Cleaning	2009	SIGMOD	5.3965759e-05
12,716	ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction	2010	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
60	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.000394583
832	NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents.	1998	SIGMOD	0.00013584281
1,204	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.0001154814
2,374	Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents	1999	SIGMOD	8.5587497e-05

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