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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
0.00014327386
Overall Rank
737 | 95.07%
DOI
10.1145/375663.375682

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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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1,582 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001015019
2,587 Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios 2005 VLDB 8.241309e-05
3,573 Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables 2004 SIGMOD 7.1775403e-05
3,596 Merging the Results of Approximate Match Operations 2004 VLDB 7.1625707e-05
3,618 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 7.1365624e-05
4,026 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.8327791e-05
4,548 Database Principles in Information Extraction 2014 PODS 6.533656e-05
5,390 Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach 2013 VLDB 6.1365979e-05
5,682 Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.0224204e-05
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12,765 ONDUX: On-Demand Unsupervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00039343755
835 NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents. 1998 SIGMOD 0.000135388
1,207 Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F 1999 VLDB 0.00011505641
2,379 Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents 1999 SIGMOD 8.5301996e-05
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