Structures, Semantics and Statistics Export

@misc{citeulike:2282725, abstract = {At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a di\#erent database structure. I argue that computing statistics over a large number of structures o\#ers a powerful methodology for producing semantic mappings, the expressions that specify such reconciliation. In essence, the statistics o\#er hints about the semantics of the symbols in the structures, thereby enabling the detection of semantically similar...}, author = {Halevy, Alon}, citeulike-article-id = {2282725}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.5690}, keywords = {lists, relational, semantics, statistics, structures, tables, web}, posted-at = {2009-10-22 13:22:55}, priority = {3}, title = {Structures, Semantics and Statistics}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.5690} }

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