Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction

Summary: Yahoo! demo of web-scale information extraction. Given new websites with semi-structured data mapped to predefined schemas, automatically populate schema objects by extracting values at scale, demonstrating end-to-end, schema-driven extraction robust to site variability and across domains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha49de3e642605eb0
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.3148581e-05
Overall Rank: 8,467 | 43.25%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213912

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Philip Bohannon (Yahoo)
2. Nilesh Dalvi (Yahoo)
3. Yuval Filmus (University of Toronto)
4. Nori Jacoby (Yahoo)
5. Sathiya Keerthi (Yahoo)
6. Alok Kirpal (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bohannon_sigmod12,
        title = {{Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction}},
        author = {Bohannon, Philip and Dalvi, Nilesh and Filmus, Yuval and Jacoby, Nori and Keerthi, Sathiya and Kirpal, Alok},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213912},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213912},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,677	Visual Template Inference for Data Extraction from Documents	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,582	Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era	2013	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
88	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035500667
1,207	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00011505641
1,336	Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web	2009	VLDB	0.00010969394
1,694	Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract]	2009	VLDB	9.8374023e-05
1,801	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	9.5997383e-05
3,405	Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction	2011	VLDB	7.3163069e-05

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