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Exploiting Data Semantics to Discover, Extract, and Model Web Sources Jose′ Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Anon Plangprasopchok, Thomas Russ USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA {ambite,knoblock,lerman,plangpra,tar}@ Cenk Gazen, Steven Minton Mark Carman Fetch Technologies Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano 2041 Rosecrans Ave, El Segundo, CA 90245 Via Buf? 13, CH-6904 Lugano, Switzerland {gazen,minton}@ mark.carman@lu.unisi.ch Abstract puts and output or even Web forms that take a speci?c input and generate a result page as the output. The system is then We describe DEIMOS, a system that automatically dis- given the task of ?nding additional sources that are similar, covers and models new sources of information. The sys- but not necessarily identical, to the known source. For ex- tem exploits four core technologies developed by our group ample, the system may already have knowledge about sev- that makes an end-to-end solution to this problem possible. eral weather services and then be given the task of ?nding First, given an example source, DEIMOS ?nds other sim- additional weather services that provide additional coverage ilar sources online. Second, it invokes and extracts data for the world and building a semantic description of these from these sources. Third, given the syntactic structure of new weather services that makes it possible to exploit them a source, DEIMOS maps its inputs and outputs to semantic for additional analysis. types. Finally, it infers the source’s semantic de?nition, i.e., This problem can be broken down into four subtasks. the function th