Inférer des Objets Sémantiques du Web Structuré

This thesis focuses on the extraction and analysis of Web data objects, investigated from different points of view: temporal, structural, semantic. We first survey different strategies and best practices for deriving temporal aspects of Web pages, together with a more in-depth study on Web feeds for this particular purpose, and other statistics. Next, in the context of dynamically-generated Web pages by content management systems, we present two keyword-based techniques that perform article extraction from such pages. Keywords, either automatically acquired through a Tf−Idf analysis, or extracted from Web feeds, guide the process of object identification, either at the level of a single Web page (SIGFEED), or across different pages sharing the same template (FOREST). We finally present, in the context of the deep Web, a generic framework that aims at discovering the semantic model of a Web object (here, data record) by, first, using FOREST for the extraction of objects, and second, representing the implicit rdf:type similarities between the object attributes and the entity of the form as relationships that, together with the instances extracted from the objects, form a labeled graph. This graph is further aligned to an ontology like YAGO for the discovery of the unknown types and relations.