ColNet: Embedding the Semantics of Web Tables for Column Type Prediction

4 Nov 2018  ·  Jiaoyan Chen, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Ian Horrocks, Charles Sutton ·

Automatically annotating column types with knowledge base (KB) concepts is a critical task to gain a basic understanding of web tables. Current methods rely on either table metadata like column name or entity correspondences of cells in the KB, and may fail to deal with growing web tables with incomplete meta information. In this paper we propose a neural network based column type annotation framework named ColNet which is able to integrate KB reasoning and lookup with machine learning and can automatically train Convolutional Neural Networks for prediction. The prediction model not only considers the contextual semantics within a cell using word representation, but also embeds the semantics of a column by learning locality features from multiple cells. The method is evaluated with DBPedia and two different web table datasets, T2Dv2 from the general Web and Limaye from Wikipedia pages, and achieves higher performance than the state-of-the-art approaches.

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 Ranked #1 on Column Type Annotation on T2Dv2 (F1 (%) metric)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Column Type Annotation T2Dv2 ColNet - Ensemble F1 (%) 94.9 # 1

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