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Structured data on the web

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Michael J. Cafarella,

Alon Halevy, and

Jayant MadhavanAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 54, Issue 2

Pages 72 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/1897816.1897839

Published: 01 February 2011 Publication History

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Google's Web Tables and Deep Web Crawler identify and deliver this otherwise inaccessible resource directly to end users.

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February 2011

115 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1897816

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