Towards a Novel Classification of Table Types in Scholarly Publications
Jilin He,
Ekaterina Borisova,
Georg Rehm
Abstract:Tables are one of the prevalent means of organising and representing structured data. They contain a wealth of valuable information that is challenging to extract automatically, yet can be leveraged for downstream tasks such as question answering and knowledge base construction. Table Type Classification (TTC) is one of the tasks which contributes to better semantic understanding and extraction of knowledge in tabular data. While multiple classification schemas exist, almost all of them are focused on web tabl… Show more
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