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  1. Scalable Natural Language Processing, IBM Research – Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA

    Laura Chiticariu

  2. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

    Marina Danilevsky, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan & Huaiyu Zhu

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Chiticariu, L. et al. (2018). Web Information Extraction. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_459

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