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Schema Discovery for Semistructured Data


Author(s) : Huiqing Liu Ke Wang, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1997
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : To formulate a meaningful query on semistructured data, such on the Web, that matches some of the source's structure, we need first to discover something about how the information is represented in the source. This is referred to as schema discovery and was considered for a single object recently. In the case of multiple objects, the task of schema discovery is to identify typical structuring information of those objects as a whole. We motivate the schema discovery in this general setting and propose a framework and algorithm for it. We apply the framework to a real,