TableNet: An Approach for Determining Fine-grained Relations for Wikipedia Tables

We focus on the problem of interlinking Wikipedia tables with fine-grained table relations: equivalent and subPartOf. Such relations allow us to harness semantically related information by accessing related tables or facts therein. Determining the type of a relation is not trivial. Relations are dependent on the schemas, the cell-values, and the semantic overlap of the cell values in tables. We propose TableNet, an approach for interlinking tables with subPartOf and equivalent relations. TableNet consists of two main steps: (i) for any source table we provide an efficient algorithm to find candidate related tables with high coverage, and (ii) a neural based approach that based on the table schemas and data, determines with high accuracy the fine-grained relation. Based on an extensive evaluation with more than 3.2M tables, we show that TableNet retains more than 88% of relevant tables pairs, and assigns table relations with an accuracy of 90%.