Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data.

Svetlozar Nestorov, Serge Abiteboul, Rajeev Motwani: Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data. SIGMOD Conference 1998: 295-306

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/NestorovAM98,
  author    = {Svetlozar Nestorov and
               Serge Abiteboul and
               Rajeev Motwani},
  editor    = {Laura M. Haas and
               Ashutosh Tiwary},
  title     = {Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data},
  booktitle = {SIGMOD 1998, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference
               on Management of Data, June 2-4, 1998, Seattle, Washington, USA},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1998},
  isbn      = {0-89791-995-5},
  pages     = {295-306},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/276304.276331, db/conf/sigmod/NestorovAM98.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/98},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Semistructured data is characterized by the lack of any fixed and rigid schema, although typically the data has some implicit structure. While the lack of fixed schema makes extracting semistructured data fairly easy and an attractive goal, presenting and querying such data is greatly impaired. Thus, a critical problem is the discovery of the structure implicit in semistructured data and, subsequently, the recasting of the raw data in terms of this structure. In this paper, we consider a very general form of semistructured data based on labeled, directed graphs. We show that such data can be typed using the greatest fixpoint semantics of monadic datalog programs. We present an algorithm for approximate typing of semistructured data. We establish that the general problem of finding an optimal such typing is NP-hard, but present some heuristics and techniques based on clustering that allow efficient and near-optimal treatment of the problem. We also present some preliminary experimental results.

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